Migrating from Invision Power Board to Discourse

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is this offer still available ?
Getting to the point where I might have to pay IPB :sadpanda:

Want to convert from http://mandrivausers.org/

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Hey, i will probably need to do a migration from IP Board v3.4.5 to Discourse at my job, any news about the import script? Would love to test it.

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I wont promise that it will work for you, but I will try to clean it up and submit a PR in the next few days. If you have a budget, my contact info is in my profile.

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I also need to do a migration from a bitrix based forum, so i’ll have to write a custom script anyway and figure out how all of this works, anything to save me some time would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

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Here it is. The two sites that I imported with this code were wildly different. I hope that someone finds it useful.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5543

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Some version of this is in core now, so you probably don’t want to use what’s in the link above.

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Can you point me where is import script for ipboard version 4?
I see only ipboard, and ipboard3 import scripts in repo.
Do you support migrating ipboard4 to discourse?

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I don’t know. My guess is that the ipboard.rb script is the one to try; I have no idea what version of ipboard I wrote it for. You’ll just have to try with your data to see if it works. As I said (years) earlier, when I originally wrote the ipboard script, the two sites that I tried it with were very, very different.

If you’re interested in paid support, you can see Migrate to Discourse Discussion Platform from your current formum software.

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Thank you for reply.
I tried with my data, it cant complete, because it breaks.
It try to find table “profile_portal”, which does not exits in 4 version.
I guess that script is written for ipb3 or less.

I will think about paid support.