# Structuring an active support community migrating from Facebook

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/structuring-an-active-support-community-migrating-from-facebook/390619
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** facebook-migration
**Created:** [December 7, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structuring-an-active-support-community-migrating-from-facebook/390619 "2025-12-07T09:06:56Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structuring-an-active-support-community-migrating-from-facebook/390619/66 "2025-12-14T11:39:56Z")

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I understand it can be hard to restrain ourselves from over-engineering, but keep in mind that Discourse is very flexible, and that you can tweak your categories afterwhile. Which includes merging categories, moving posts from one category to another, replacing a category with a tag and vice versa, etc.

So, it’s not a major issue if you think you made mistakes, or if you think your categories and tags organizations could be improved after launching your forum:

> [@Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349):
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> Below you will find a collection of bulk operations that can be initiated from the command line. You will need SSH access, so if you are a hosted customer, you will need to contact the Discourse team about running these commands. warning Before working with the console it is extremely important that you have a recent backup. Mistakes can always happen! First thing to do is enter your site’s container: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app Additional Guides: [Performing bulk actions a…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performing-bulk-actions-as-a-moderator/272832)

Of course, it’s always ideal if everything’s right off the launch, of course. What I’m trying to say is that these tools can ease your overthinking, since what you come up with can always be changed afterwards.

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