# Migrate a MyBB forum to Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-mybb-forum-to-discourse/130789
**Category:** Sysadmins
**Tags:** how-to
**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-mybb-forum-to-discourse/130789 "2019-10-11T13:51:07Z")
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### Author: ![Paul\_King](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paul_king/32/165426_2.png) [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-mybb-forum-to-discourse/130789/13 "2020-04-11T08:00:08Z")

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In case it helps anyone, the developer @rahilqf I engaged completed the project including translation of custom MyBB user fields into Discourse custom user fields (which depends on having the [multi-select-user-field plugin](https://github.com/procourse/discourse-multiselect-user-field) installed), MyBB post prefixes translated into Discourse tags, and stripping out of nearly all redundant MyCode tags from MyBB post text.

His customized import script version is shared here - [Custom MyBB to Discourse Import Script](https://gist.github.com/rahilwazir/bc220385123f50062492be8908b067d6).

He also successfully merged in a Yahoo Groups Mbox archive, using the standard [Yahoo import script](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts/mbox) - though with this attachments seemed not to translate. In my case that was not a major problem.

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