Merging two Discourse forums

I don’t follow. You didn’t try the IMPORT_SOURCE?

No. I didn’t realize it was not part of the Category Export import reference in the original post?

I finally got to run the IMPORT_SOURCE and it worked perfectly. Users were matched properly, and an incremental import with Gerhard’s phpBB importer completed successfully after the category import.

Thanks, @neil!

I want to merge a smaller discourse forum into a single category within my larger discourse forum. Both forums are native to discourse. I did not import anything from any other forum software. Both forums are running as separate stand-alone DO droplets (and are up-to-date). Naturally, I want all user logins, avatars, and data to transfer. Will the process laid out by @pfaffman work for this? Or, would a different process be more appropriate for putting the smaller forum into a single category?

I think that you want to do what’s described above

Thanks for the clarification (and reassurance). I get a bit nervous before I trying things like this. Will report back once complete in case anyone else stumbles upon this at a later date.

你成功了吗？

是的。我遇到的唯一挑战是用户名和邮箱账户的合并——这个过程并不完美。这很可能出自我本人的失误，因为实际情况比我预想的要复杂得多。经过大量工作，并与现有成员进行了艰难的沟通后，我们决定放下过去，重新开始（我们最初是从 vBulletin 迁移过来的，那次过程很顺利）。现在回想起来，那确实是最明智的决定。目前，我们所有媒体文件都通过 AWS 上传，不再将任何内容托管在站点上，这大幅降低了成本。坦白说，我曾在 BBS 时代犯过一个错误，运营了一个政治论坛，并且一直延续至今（我可能会转向冰球或其他压力较小的话题）。那些陈旧的争论和口角并不值得保留……毕竟，闲聊和争执从未停止，而要积累数千个线程也并非难事。

我能理解，如果有人收购现有社区、合并多个知识库，或整合企业实践社区，那么他们绝对需要一个毫无瑕疵的合并方案。但就我的目的而言，这并非大问题。对于未能及时提供更新，我向大家表示歉意。当事情未按计划进行且我无法找到解决办法时，我不想成为大家的负担。

听到您具体在哪些地方遇到了困难，这对未来的读者很有帮助，让他们知道需要特别关注这些部分。

感谢您的更新！

是的，感谢迟来的更新。

听到关于政治等边缘案例的讨论真的很有用，因为你们来之不易的经验教训，对于我们论坛中类似类别和主题类型的决策具有重要的参考价值。

不确定是否已在该主题中提及，但有一份关于合并两个论坛的新指南，可能对此帖的读者感兴趣：