Merging 2 Invision Communities - Will members preserver passwords?

[MediaDiGi]

I plan to merge two Invision communities:

• Community A - 75K members - Source
• Community B - 25K members - Destination

My question is:

Will members of community A be able to log in with their usual user/password combination, or will those be reset? I'd instead prefer to find a way for them not to have to reset their password.

[Jim M]

Correct. Passwords will transfer with the user except in events where the user is a member in both communities. In that case, the user's content is merged into the Community B user and that user will need to login with their credentials used in Community B.

[MediaDiGi]

And one other question, @Jim M so I will not open a new thread:

Is it possible to redirect the old thread URL to the new one? Because I think the thread number, it will change. This will help me a lot with SEO

[Jim M]

The topic ID will indeed change. I'm afraid, there is no method currently to redirect this.

[Jim M]

Talking with one of our developers, there is a lesser known, not really documented way to redirect this:

You redirect the entire old domain to <new-url>/ic-merge-X/*
Where X id the id of the 'core' merge.

That way your old topic IDs will be handled.

[MediaDiGi]

16 hours ago, Jim M said:

Talking with one of our developers, there is a lesser known, not really documented way to redirect this:

You redirect the entire old domain to <new-url>/ic-merge-X/*
Where X id the id of the 'core' merge.

That way your old topic IDs will be handled.

@Jim M Can you please help me with the Nginx rule that I should set up to handle all merged topics?

[Marc]

 

We would not provide rules for nginx. You would be best to contact your hosting company for some assistance with setting up some rules for you