I am in the process of migrating a MyBB forum to Discourse I see with imported posts a lot, but not all, contain visible MyCode formatting tags. example (there are also apparent UTF-8 character encoding issues, which is subject of separate thread): TTT Thao Nguyen Jul '18 [quote=“admin, post:4,…

You can have a look at the vBulletin importer which does a bunch of replacements of such tags. There is also a bbcode plugin that will support many of them. With the quotes you need to be sure that there are new lines before the opening and after the closing tags.

I had the same issue when importing a very old (2002) PhpBB forum and I added various regexes to the importer to remove (or maybe replace in some case) these BBCode tags. It worked quite well in the end. [image] pfaffman: With the quotes you need to be sure that there are new lines before the o…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 13, 2020, 10:53pm 4

The vBulletin importer has several replacements for various quote versions. Even one that’ll get the post number for a proper reference.

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