Moving from Facebook Groups to Discourse

A search for scrape facebook group content shows there are a bunch of tools & services claiming to do this, for a price. Then you’d need a Discourse import script written. (And I don’t quite know how untitled group posts would import into Discourse.)

Short of figuring out how to import everything, is there any benefit in just trying to “simplify” account creation..? :thinking: Registering for a forum doesn’t seem any harder than filling out a Google form, and if there’s extra special info you want to collect, it could be included as user fields on the signup.

If you collected user info via a Google form piped into a spreadsheet, and exported them to a CSV file, and imported them into Discourse, creating staged accounts for everyone… they’d all still have to make the effort to confirm their account and set a password anyway.