# \[Paid\] Migration from Flarum to Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [5월 14, 2018, 1:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434 "2018-05-14T13:12:55Z")
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### Author:  [@EddieC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EddieC)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2018, 1:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/1 "2018-05-14T13:12:55Z")
**What would you like done?**
I have a small private community (\<500 members) on “Flarum” that I want to migrate to an existing Discourse installation (empty).
The absolute minimum is:
- Users (usernames and passwords)
- Topics and Posts
A category migration would be great.
Optional:
- Likes
- Avatars
(There are no attachments or anything else that need to be migrated)
**When do you need it done?**
There is no particular deadline, within 30 days would be great though.
**What is your budget, in $ USD that you can offer for this task?**
As a non-developer, I’m not sure what is appropriate here and how much time it all takes, but as I am on a really tight budget right now, I can offer around $250 (I hope that’s realistic).
**Additional Information:**
[http://flarum.org/docs/](http://flarum.org/docs/)
Thanks in advance for any reply.
Eddie
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2018, 1:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/2 "2018-05-14T13:52:20Z")
Here are my notes on migrations: [Redirecting…](https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/)
Unless @codinghorror is interested in Subsidizing an inporter for flarum, your budget is likely unrealistic.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2018, 8:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/3 "2018-05-14T20:27:38Z")
Is migrating passwords even possible? Last I knew hashing differences meant it was not.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2018, 8:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/4 "2018-05-14T20:36:25Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> Is migrating passwords even possible?
Sometimes. [Migrated password hashes support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-password-hashes-support/19512). At least once I wrote an importer and the migrate password plugin just worked, but your mileage may vary.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2018, 9:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/5 "2018-05-14T21:58:14Z")
[Flarum uses bcrypt](https://discuss.flarum.org/d/3766-password-encoding-process/5) so migrating the passwords should be perfectly doable.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 15, 2018, 6:52오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/8 "2018-05-15T06:52:27Z")
> [@EddieC](#):
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> I can offer around $250 (I hope that’s realistic).
To help make this more realistic we are also happy to donate $250 to the cause, so all up the budget is $500. (clearly the import scripts need to be committed into Discourse though, so others benefit)
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### Author:  [@EddieC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EddieC)
#### Post date: [5월 15, 2018, 10:39오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/9 "2018-05-15T10:39:47Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> To help make this more realistic we are also happy to donate $250 to the cause, so all up the budget is $500. (clearly the import scripts need to be committed into Discourse though, so others benefit)
Awesome, thank you, I appreciate it and hope that more will find this useful (I’m confident that more will switch, especially those who use this for business, as Flarum’s development sadly doesn’t seem to go anywhere).
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [5월 16, 2018, 7:30오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/10 "2018-05-16T07:30:43Z")
> [@EddieC](#):
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> I’m confident that more will switch, especially those who use this for business, as Flarum’s development sadly doesn’t seem to go anywhere
Shameless plug:
> [@Which is Better? Discourse or Flarum?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-is-better-discourse-or-flarum/71726/7):
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> My answer to Flarum (or any hobbyist “competitor”) vs Discourse is always this: Flarum is a beautifully designed piece of software. Flarum and Discourse have taken many design inspirations from one another, so they function very similarly. The biggest difference between the two projects isn’t the code or the features, but rather how each project is run. Discourse has more than 10x 20x as many developers as Flarum, plus a whole support crew. Flarum has two core developers, and neither of them…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6월 15, 2018, 7:30오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migration-from-flarum-to-discourse/87434/11 "2018-06-15T07:30:57Z")
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