# Troubles moving from XenForo to Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060 "2020-04-08T05:25:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060/4 "2020-04-11T10:22:47Z")

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None of those things is surprising.

I generally `grep` the script directory for the thing I’m looking for (Avatar) . I believe for the views you can just add it to the sql query and add the field to the create record. For the guest user there is a line that uses system if the user lookup fails. You can replace it with the guest user that you create.

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