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 [immagine] 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 …

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) 20 Settembre 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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