My question is more exploratory than well structured — so apologies in advance for the poor framing. :pray: I admin a site for folk who model energy systems transitions and who prefer to work with open source tools and open data: https://forum.openmod.org Our user base is currently just over 12…

You can configure the original site as a DiscourseConnect server and have the other site use DiscourseConnect to authenticate against it.

[image] Robbie Morrison: Another thought is to somehow use Categories on the existing site to achieve a similar outcome. With users needing to opt in to those categories covering software support. This is useful, since then a user can stay on the same site and just customize the parts of the …

@maiki Thanks. Another albeit secondary consideration is that of splitting site maintenance overheads and responsibilities. Possibly cleaner with two separate sites in this hypothetical. Again, just thinking out loud. R

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robbie.morrison (Robbie Morrison) August 24, 2023, 9:36pm 3

@pfaffman Thanks. I just scanned the DiscourseConnect material. Our screening processes are thorough, so compromised email accounts should not be an issue. R

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