Originally published at: Moving from Facebook Groups to Discourse
The following is a guest post by Martin Eriksson @meriksson On January 4th 2017, the news aggregation site cor.ax completed its migration from private Facebook Groups to a private Discourse community. Why the move? We used to have about 20 Facebook groups for people involved in a network of alternative media projects. Some of the…
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I saw in another thread that this is no longer possible due to Facebook API issues. Is this true?
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I’m not sure, but Facebook goes out of its way to act maliciously at every opportunity. @hawk if the blog post isn’t correct any more we should update it?
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Bumping this thread, is there anything new in regards of facebook group(s) export to discourse?
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2025, and I’m facing moving a 7k person group from Facebook to Discourse, and wondering what the best way to go about it is – first for the member base, and then, why not, posts? If there is any recent information or recent experiences in that matter I’d be super happy to hear about them (to avoid losing time trying stuff people have already tried and failed at ;-))
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Tell me if you can steal exploit member base and users emails. That would kill Facebook for good. And you, sorry.
But for posts you need a way to scrape content. Facebook has disabled it quite good, but sure — everything that shows in screens can be copied. That is how AIs and SEO/keyword-companies works.
But there isn’t a legit way for group owners (they don’t owe anything, nor can’t delete a group de facto) to do it.