We want to roll out a new Discourse instance for a larger group of users. We’re considering deprecating our older install, however I’m wondering if it would be possible to migrate selected topics from the old instance to the new instance. Any advice on this?

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Migrate topics from one discourse instance to another?

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Matthew_Gaudet (Matthew Gaudet) November 28, 2016, 7:00pm 3

Colour me intrigued

That’s definitely something we could probably arrange to have happen. Does this code have a home for poking at?

(PS: thanks so much)

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