I’m using Discourse for a yearly event (a preparatory course at a university), both for internal use for the organizers and for discussion among participants. This year’s event has finished, and once usage has dropped below significance, I’d be okay with shutting the installation down. Next year, h…

Could you move the topics to an ‘archive’ category that is organized with tags?

Use groups, one for each year. And api to manage groups.

We definitely need a better archiving strategy but I am not sure what that is at the moment.

This is my favorite idea so far.

As you get deeper into doing this update the topic; we may want to convert some of the manual steps you take into automatic steps that Discourse can take on your behalf. Once we know what they are…

On a SSO-enabled site, if I log out a user, prevent him from signing in again via SSO, and deactivate his account, is there any way for him to interact with Discourse anymore? He should not be ably to reply by mail , should not get any new mails and be unable to re-validate his address because he can…

I think so can you verify the above words @sam ? I wonder if we need a better process here, somehow.

Yes I am pretty sure that if you deactivate they will have to re-activate prior to any interaction. Be sure to test it out though.

[afbeelding] codinghorror: I wonder if we need a better process here, somehow. I’m not really sure how a better process could work. A perfect solution for me would have been a button that logs out and disables all non-staff-accounts until they log in again, without forcing them to re-validate…

I’m very interested in this yearly event use case, e.g. students in a class every year. I think it’s common and very useful!

Sounds great! So let me dream a bit: Add a group containing all non-staff users. Implement a new user state, let’s call it “expired” for now: Expiring a user forces a logout. Expired users cannot interact via email. Logging in once again reinstates the account, without re-validating the address. A…

Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) 30 oktober 2017 om 09:25 18

As a note to anyone using this (…which includes myself ), @zogstrip updated the topic count recalculation code here. He probably has hood reasons to do so, so this might deserve an update

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Best way to temporarily remove public access to a user's topics? Support	30	1463	5 september 2023
Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting configuring , reference	8	14149	25 februari 2026
How to delete EVERYTHING from my forum and just leave the users? Support	30	1548	8 januari 2023
Discourse deleted 1500 inactive users who haven't been seen for two years after update Support	44	3650	24 april 2019
Delete Unreplied Topics plugin Plugin	27	1933	15 maart 2025

Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event

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