Hey gang. I have an existing forum (Discourse), and another site in my same niche is throwing in the towel (also Discourse). How do I ‘import’ the content from his site to mine without doing a full backup/restore? Any pointers?

[image] Move topics from one Discourse instance to another Self-Hosting Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings warning if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…

If that solves your problem, you should come back when done and mark as solution so people with similar issues in the future know that works.

I should have some results here in the next week or so when I try it in dev.

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) March 14, 2026, 8:07pm 2

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