I have a discuorse forum, or rather I am staff of one and I have a Twitter account I no longer use as my login method. Is there a way to change the Twitter account, or merge the account with another, maybe local account?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-merge-users/9220 Nothing yet that I see, would be good to be able to at least bulk change ownership of posts / topics like mentioned in that topic. So far there isn’t an easy way to do this that I see.

This gist might be something that will help with what you want to achieve.

Can you show me how to use that script

I am in the same situation as you. :weary_face: :sweat_smile: I will be watching that gist to see if the author replies.

Now I know how to use that script. Just copy it to app/lib Open rails console and type the last line of that gist (change username)

Yes, we have a rake task now [image] Rake task for merging users megaphoneAnnouncements As of Discourse 2.5.0.beta3 , site admins can merge non-staff users without needing to access the console. For security, staff users will still need to be merged via the con…

This can now also be done through the UI as well. :warning: Merging large accounts with other large accounts can be quite expensive in database and server time. But when merging two small accounts, or a large account and a small account, you shouldn’t have any problems.

On this, when merging accounts for a user, do badges and achievements move across? Or is it just posts, likes and messages?

I’ve just merged a couple of test users and Badges, site settings, stats, etc are copied over from one to the other. :+1:

Thanks! I managed to merge both accounts for one user and the badges moved across which is an awesome feature

Is there a way to merge accounts?

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dax (Daniela) September 20, 2018, 10:34am 9

Yes, we have a rake task now

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Is there a way to merge accounts?

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