# Is it possible to transfer a blog to a new user?

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735>\
**Category:** Instance Admins\
**Created:** [October 4, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735 "2025-10-04T06:24:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/agger-magenta/32/3399_2.png) [@agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/u/agger-magenta)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735/1 "2025-10-04T06:24:10Z")

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I’m self-hosting a multi-user instance, freely.modspil.dk.

Would it be possible to transfer on of my blogs to a different user? I can’t seem to find it in the user interface.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735/2 "2025-10-06T15:10:22Z")

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There’s no way to transfer a blog to another user in WriteFreely, but maybe that’s something we could allow. Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason you want to transfer blogs to another user, instead of e.g. creating a new blog on your account, or changing your username?

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**Author:** ![agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/agger-magenta/32/3399_2.png) [@agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/u/agger-magenta)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735/3 "2025-10-07T07:30:02Z")

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Hi,

thanks for getting back!

my specific use case is that I’ve been reposting a daily newsletter by another writer for some time, and he offered to update it himself when I’m off for some reason … and because of that I wanted to create a new user and transfer the blog to him to avoid sharing my (admin) password and account with him.

Now he seems to have found a new and better home for the newsletter and so it will soon be less relevant, but I imagine similar situations could arise for other people.

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**Author:** ![agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/agger-magenta/32/3399_2.png) [@agger-magenta](https://discuss.write.as/u/agger-magenta)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735/4 "2025-10-08T08:47:56Z")

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Another way to solve the same use case would be to have collaborative blogs, so other users on an instance could be added to an existing blog. I don’t know if that’s in the roadmap for WriteFreely, but I can see how it could be useful.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/is-it-possible-to-transfer-a-blog-to-a-new-user/19735/5 "2025-10-08T18:04:17Z")

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Yeah, sounds like collaborative blogs would fit best. This is exactly what we have planned, actually! We have it developed on Write.as right now, and have it planned for a near-future WriteFreely release. Originally we were only planning support for single-user instances ([development task here](https://todo.musing.studio/T926)), but it sounds like it’d fit well for multi-user instances, so this is great feedback.