# Convincing a stubborn admin to let me use Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-stubborn-admin-to-let-me-use-discourse/106314
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [1월 11, 2019, 8:46오후 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: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [1월 12, 2019, 10:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-stubborn-admin-to-let-me-use-discourse/106314/25 "2019-01-12T22:59:55Z")

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When people have gotten used to a forum working in a particular way (even if you can’t even properly search the forum), the most active users will be against change and the rest will be indifferent. That’s perhaps the biggest challenge: Your most valuable users are most likely to be resistant because if they didn’t like the forum, they wouldn’t be as active as they are. 🤔

> [@Dynamic of community with a chat and discourse page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-of-community-with-a-chat-and-discourse-page/67579/6):
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> Don’t assume, however, that a bad user experience is a convincing reason for veteran users to switch to a better platform. I asked recently about the chances of a forum running on vbulletin migrating to discourse. I did not expect that people would be excited from the start, but that a discussion about the pros and cons would ensue. - The discussion was over before it even started: [http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107791-Any-chance-that-this-forum-will-migrate-to-discourse](http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107791-Any-chance-that-this-forum-will-migrate-to-discourse) At leas…

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