Recently I’ve moved my xenforo forum to discourse but now it shows “Created < 1 month ago” in the about page but the community was started in 2016, but its showing the discourse instance created date, how can I change this?

[image] Falco: AFAIK, that date will reflect the oldest post, That’s not quite it. I had someone else who wanted to change that date before. I tracked down the query that gets this date and found a way to change it. I can’t remember and can’t find any notes I may have made. You’d look at the…

Yes, all the posts were imported, can confirm that!

[image] Jay Pfaffman: That’s not quite it. I had someone else who wanted to change that date before. I tracked down the query that gets this date and found a way to change it. I can’t remember and can’t find any notes I may have made. Wow our AI response told that to me too, but I dismissed i…

[image] support-bot: schema_migration_details YES! That was it! I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what I did, except I’m pretty sure that I figured it out myself. :crying_cat: [image] Falco: I dismissed it as an hallucination because I couldn’t believe we would do that, but looks like it i…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: I had someone else who wanted to change that date before. I tracked down the query that gets this date and found a way to change it. I can’t remember and can’t find any notes I may have made. Am I the only one who does remember this? And I didn’t need AI? :rofl: FYI: …

We also use this in our existing_site? migration helper, I also always thought it was a bit odd that we didn’t store this information elsewhere, like even if we had some site table that had one row in it or something to correspond with the site model: lib/migration/helpers.rb 979d0ca73 …

How do I change forum created date?

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Falco (Falco) March 11, 2025, 5:31pm 3

Did you import all your topics from Xenforo? AFAIK, that date will reflect the oldest post, which would be automatic if you migrated your content.

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How do I change forum created date?

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