Uploading 17500 users and their avatars using PHP

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

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Migrate a Ning forum to Discourse

Want to migrate from Ning to Discourse? Great! Let’s get started. What data can be imported? Users Avatars Directories/Categories Topics & Posts Images Attachments Prerequisites Set up Discourse development environment on OS X, Ubuntu or Windows. Clear existing data from your local Discourse instance: cd ~/discourse rake db:drop db:create db:migrate Open Ning import script in the editor of your choice. Replace JSON_FILES_DIR value with the location of your Ning export data. A…