# Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [10월 19, 2015, 2:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670 "2015-10-19T14:12:43Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [6월 21, 2016, 9:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670/16 "2016-06-21T09:14:19Z")

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This procedure [has the side effect of preventing incoming mails from previous users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-e-mails-from-inactive-users/45961).

Maybe staging the users instead of inactivating them would work, as staged users should no longer get Digests and the like; and there should be no further activity on their topics (as they are moved to the archive).

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