# Just migrated a Xenforo site to Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-migrated-a-xenforo-site-to-discourse/410745>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [August 23, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-migrated-a-xenforo-site-to-discourse/410745 "2026-08-23T21:45:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andrew_bond/32/271376_2.png) [@Andrew\_Bond](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Bond)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-migrated-a-xenforo-site-to-discourse/410745/24 "2026-11-10T23:28:28Z")

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I have done some more styling consistency checks and a few changed as requested by users.

You will notice here the default order of the footer has been changed. Someone noted that its too busy, so swapped that bit out .

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/1/c/81c004dd571d4df13586f67a23ac41b8082075fe.jpeg)

Towards the top I had to break out the compact user menu. Users were just not taking to the change that everything is in here so I broke out the alerts and messages. They are dynamic so that if you have a message your compact catch all avatar stays without a number but your bell icon or DM icon gets a number(s)

You can see this on the mobile view here :

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/f/d/bfd2c465f97cd4daa131d042d2781971865221a6.jpeg)

It works for desktop too!

Some users were getting frustrated that a newly re-visited topic was all the way to the top of the timeline so I created two buttons. One to cycle them to the last post and the other to return.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/e/5/0e5bf055525abd8c2aa06d99d80f33b99f4a3b33.jpeg)

I found the side bar menu ( left ) to be too big so I stripped out just about everything we dont need. Added in custom menus and condensed them automatically.

Its always on the left hand mid side. I found this minimised the mouse travel on larger screens

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/1/6/11680b4145135ca5a45bfce5a3c1bc12faad0b8e.jpeg)

I restyled the right side block and tried to make everything consistent!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/3/5/f351f53f766415eaa31c5a0af0384ed449a1898e.jpeg)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/6/f/46f0d1b2de49a3794c6102924662bba4e37fe59d.jpeg)

I did some optimisation on the categories so that it was slightly less transparent :

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/2/a/72ac486ee20594b6c1e4833865dafe9249beabcd.jpeg)

More changes include a twin user meta divider line to segregate the user from the post data.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/8/5/c853d5776a73a61b1f2143fcdc52af6f9e1f31bb.jpeg)

And I conceded and had to use the reply quote. It was alienating a lot of users.

I need to apologise - I had to add sudo pages. Blocks of 25 posts make up a new “page” I dont understand why some people were reluctant to embrace infinity scroll. However we now have both.

The mobile version is excellent. I really do like the way that discourse does this.

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