# Convencendo um admin teimoso a deixar eu usar o Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-stubborn-admin-to-let-me-use-discourse/106314>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Janeiro 11, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-stubborn-admin-to-let-me-use-discourse/106314 "2019-01-11T20:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Janeiro 12, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-stubborn-admin-to-let-me-use-discourse/106314/17 "2019-01-12T03:30:45Z")

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> [@Janno\_Liivak](#):
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> When our forum transitioned from phpBB3 to Discourse, we lost many long-term users and community suffered

I am curious, how many people were in this community? 10? 50? 100? More? What percent of them decided not to make the transition and left?

There’s no question that you will lose some people in _any_ major transition, but when you arrive on the other side you should _gain_ members over time because the experience has improved so much overall. Not to mention mobile which is usually abysmal on these old forum softwares. However, if you have a small, fixed number of users and there is no possibility for adding members to the community, this can be a risky strategy.

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