Is a proper migration from vBulletin 3.8 to Discourse possible?

[neounix (Dark Matter)]

Hi @Juless

Yes, we did it… see this summary for example:

Completed Migration vB3 to Discourse including Legacy vB3 Thank You to Likes

Just completed, for the most part (still in test bed, but the “hard parts” are basically done and the migration works fine), migrating a 15 year old vb3 forum, which was originally (believe-it-or-not) a vb2 forum from 2000. This forum has been around for around 20 years (with unimaginable custom PHP code, tables, plugins, etc), and Discourse is the only forum software, in my view, “worthy” of a migration project, which I started around a week ago, going from feasibility to completion (basically…

You can see the results at our site.

It was very labor intensive and a very tiring process to get it nearly perfect because of 15 years of nested bbcode and a lot of mojibake, etc. over the years.

Hopefully, your forum is not “coding intensive” with over a decade of nested bbcode like ours.