Hi. I have a dump from an old forum application which I like to migrate to discourse. What is the best way to do it ? should I create a plugin for it ? Or use the API to create new posts ? I need the date to be exactly the same as the dump file for each post.
What better chance to take a look at our import scripts from other platforms? 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/5012d46cbd3bcf79b7351f7d2d41003496a796c5/script/import_scripts
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hell yeah. How can I use them ?
You can start reading this guide:
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thanks a lot friend.
You don’t mention what software you’ve been using. Every importer migrates the original date of the posts, so that part is easy.
Searching “your forum #howto” will find instructions if there are any, and the link above will get you to all of the importers.
A substantial part of my living is from doing imports. I have an info page here: https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/
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