Hi there! I’ve finally got my self-hosted Discourse instance up and running. But… I have a lot of configuring to do, and I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed! Context: I have a nearly 8k member facebook group I’m planning to migrate to Discourse over the coming months; I gave Discourse a spin with a free …

Discourse backups are normally .tar.gz files that include the database, uploads, and metadata. An SQL dump plus .mnu/.des files don’t match the official Discourse backup format, so they can’t be restored through the standard admin restore workflow. If you still have access to the old trial instance,…

Oh wonderful, thanks so much for this, looks like what I need! I’m going to double-check again what I have in terms of backup (I don’t have access to the trial instance anymore). Not a huge huge issue if it’s lost, but it would have saved me redoing previously done work :wink:

@stephtara If your audience is coming from Facebook, you may want see: [صورة] Fakebook Theme Theme discourse2 Summary Fakebook - I had a little fun with this one to showcase the flexibility of our theming system. This layout might look a bit familiar wink …

@stephtara glad you are proceeding with the move of your community from facebook! That sounds like an interesting (and very worthwhile!) challenge. If you want you can also post about your journey in a new Community Building topic. Here in Support please separate your questions into different topic…

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 16 نوفمبر 2025، 11:45م 4

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