Hello all.
I am not new to Discourse. I migrated from phpBB to Discourse over on my other car interest site exiges.com.
I have been massively impressed with the steady churn of enhancements that the discourse team have been releasing so I took the plunge and moved my 750k posts , 20k members Xenforo forum across to Discourse.
Using a healthy dose of luck, judgement and AI I wrote an import script to get the data across. I have a self hosted system with AllHost.IO , 8cores and 8GB RAM and it took 37 hrs to migrate.
The post is here Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse - #141 by Andrew_Bond for the migration script.
I have been making the site look a bit like the Xenforo one because TBH it just worked. I am delighted so far with the outcome :
I made it so the backgrounds rotate every minute and there are 5 out there. Also I made some categories boxes and added some detail for them :
I need to tweak the light setting a bit but for now it works.
I came here not really to shout about my site(s) but more to say thanks to the devs. I was a die hard Xenforo fanboy but this platform in my opinion has made the admin side easy and the frequent updates are just brilliant.