# Moving over Facebook Group (not an import question)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-over-facebook-group-not-an-import-question/61566
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** facebook-migration
**Created:** [25 Abril , 2017 13:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-over-facebook-group-not-an-import-question/61566 "2017-04-25T13:08:53Z")
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### Author: ![Steven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steven/32/187890_2.png) [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [25 Abril , 2017 14:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-over-facebook-group-not-an-import-question/61566/2 "2017-04-25T14:25:04Z")

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> [@dau](#):
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> How to further encourage migration to Discourse?  
> Being new to Discourse, we don’t have any other strategies to encourage people to spend more time on Discourse (and away from Facebook). Can you suggest any configuration settings, plugins, or strategies for us?

The one major option I can think of (if your haven’t done it already) would be to configure the facebook login, it’s pretty easy to do and it will take for your users 5 secondes to create an account. The facebook logins will import the profile pic too.

> [@Configure Facebook login for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-facebook-login-for-discourse/13394):
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> exclamation As of February 2023, Meta has implemented a business verification requirement when publishing new and existing apps. warning Updating the Facebook app API or creating a new app will break existing logins. See troubleshooting at the bottom of this post for a solution. Configuration Go to [developers.facebook.com/apps](https://developers.facebook.com/apps) and … Login with the credentials of the account you want to connect to Discourse and follow the wizard. If you already have other apps instead of Get Started …

The Quick Message plugin is also interesting for big facebook users, it (kinda) reproduces facebook messenger. They can send MP pretty easily. But it’s more an idea for “_after they are lured in your community_” proposition.

> [@Quick Messages Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-messages-plugin/39188):
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> Here’s something I’ve been playing around with for a bit. Will definitely still be some issues to iron out, but it mostly works. Would be good to get some feedback at this stage. Please use with caution slight_smile repo: [GitHub - paviliondev/discourse-quick-messages · GitHub](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-quick-messages)Description Adds a dropdown in the header that shows you your latest private messages and a ‘chat’ experience for private messages similar to Facebook Messages or Google Hangouts. User notes: Please note that…

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