Want to migrate from GetSatisfaction to Discourse? Great! Let’s get started. What data can be imported? Users Topics & Replies Topic Permalinks Prerequisites Set up Discourse development environment on OS X , Ubuntu or Windows . Install dependencies: cd ~/discourse echo "gem 'reverse_markdown…

Shouldn’t there be a step Wait for sidekiq to be happy somewhere in here, probably after step 3?

I, personally, prefer to run Sidekiq on production machine instead of my dev machine.

In that case, maybe add a step 5: After restoring, wait for Sidekiq to finish processing all posts. You can watch the progress at /sidekiq. Until this is done, some interactions may not work properly.

I made the first post wiki, feel free to make the edits as you see fit. :wink:

Trying to migrate our support community to Discourse, I have set up a development environment and executed all steps until the import successfully. However when starting the import (Perform import step 1), the following error pops up: loading existing groups... loading existing users... loading exi…

Did this get resolved or are you still stuck?

After some hacking we got it to work. Basically, the some field names were changed or even dropped. So we adjusted the import code to overcome these differences. The permalinks code got broken and we simply skipped that part. Some replies did not come through in the correct order, but it came out go…

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sam (Sam Saffron) 4월 1, 2026, 5:31오전 9

moved this out of official documentation, getsatisfaction is long gone…

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