Questions about Discourse on Digital Ocean

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

@ROODAY

My main concerns are that I already have another webapp that has a PostgreSQL database that contains users’ emails and passwords. I’d like to be able to import those emails and passwords into the discourse database so that users will not have to go through the hassle of making a new account just to use the forums (which are intended to be for discussion regarding the original webapp.)

This sounds like you shouldn’t make a one-time import but set up SSO:

Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

DiscourseConnect is a core Discourse feature that allows you to configure “Single Sign-On (SSO)” to completely outsource all user registration and login from Discourse to another site. Offered to our standard, business and enterprise hosting customers. (Feb 2021) ‘Discourse SSO’ is now ‘DiscourseConnect’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso_... rather than discourse_connect_... The Problem Many sites wishing to integrat…