Greetings all! I recently purchased an already-established vBulletin 4 forum after being part of the forum staff for a few years. But after reading up on some horror stories of vB security vulnerabilities, dealing with the horrible mobile UI, and having an absolute nightmare fixing out-dated plugin…

[image] spellbee2: should I just rip the band-aid off instead of hassling with the transition period? You should. [image] Gradual migration from vBulletin Support Every time we have seen people run new and old discussion / forum systems in paralle…

Ah, sorry I missed that thread in my search. I do like the idea of having just a few “beta-tester” members to run it through it’s paces - that should be enough to hash out any problems, especially if I can include a couple of the “curmudgeons” in that group as well. Thanks for the help!

What I’ve done is to do an import, invite some folks to check it out, and warn them that the beta site is temporary. They can then make posts as test to see how things work, rather than worry that they’ll be recorded forever. I’ve also done the two-in-parallel thing. You can re-run the importer and…

If you want to talk through migration strategy, start a post in #community and I can help you out. I’ve been part of many migrations. I’m planning on writing up a howto post in the coming weeks which might be helpful also. I’ll prioritise that.

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Falco (Falco) January 10, 2018, 6:27pm 2

You should.

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