Im fed up with Invision. I’m interested in a self install. my board has Total Members 57651 Total Topics 4552 Total Posts 42326 nearly 10k attachments mostly pics how much for a convert?

How much? That sounds like a question for the Marketplace category. It also depends if you are self-hosting or using the IPS SaaS hosting service.

For our hosting, a year commitment on the business plan covers conversions – https://discourse.org/buy

A bit steep for me. How much just for a conversion?

Jeff noted the method to get an import script written by the core Discourse team (purchase a year-long business plan). If that won’t work for you @FedUpInvisionUser, you might want to post in marketplace instead of support. To see what importers are already out there, see: discourse/script/import_scripts at main · discourse/discourse main/script/import_scripts A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - discourse/discourse For example, there appears to be a XenForo option @STORMS (I’m assuming that it was XF stands for). I’ve never run any of the import scripts myself, but there is some basic information about how to run an importer script here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-import-script-group-forum-mappings/19879

[image] FedUpInvisionUser: how much for a convert? FWIW, I’ve mostly finished an IPB importer. I’ll submit a PR for it when I can, but it will likely be in January of 2017.

That’s great to hear. I was getting ready just to shut the website down at the end of the month

[image] pfaffman: [image] FedUpInvisionUser: how much for a convert? FWIW, I’ve mostly finished an IPB importer. I’ll submit a PR for it when I can, but it will likely be in January of 2017. I’m also very interested in this. I wasn’t looking forward to the conversion game (IPB to phpbb to something else to something else and then finally Discourse).

If you want me to run it for you, I’ll do it today. If you want to run it yourself, it’ll be another week or two. The site has 280K users, 5.2 million topics, 2.8 million posts. What I hope is the penultimate import is running right now. I’m pretty happy with how I managed to map IPB topic/post URLs/citations into proper Discourse references, but I’d like to make sure that this code works with another forum to make sure that I pull out features specific to that forum. It handles: users, topics (with pinning), posts, categories, avatars, Permalinks for users, categories, topics. importing users and topics created after a particular date (useful for testing) optionally adding links to the IPB forum (useful for checking formatting issues) In particular, there are multiple ways that IPB generates URLs, which affects how 301 redirects/Permalinks work. I’d really like to test it with another import and see that it works with the two URL formats that I know about before I submit the code for others to use. Also, the forum that I used to write the importer was a software discussion site in Polish; I’d like to make sure that the formatting is correct for another type of forum in a language that I can read. If I don’t get another paid import soon, I’ll try to clean the code up and submit it in the next week or two.

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Same here… however, I would just need the conversion. We’re already on dedicated and we’re on XF.

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