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…

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

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 Building 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.

Persistent sync - vBulletin 4 to Discourse

Поддержка

Falco (Falco) 10.Январь.2018 18:27:01 2

You should.

Тема		Ответов	Просм.
Gradual migration from vBulletin Support	3	1311	20.06.2016
Migrating vBulletin onto existing and live Discourse instance Support	8	2413	09.04.2019
How import vBulletin into Discourse hosting site? Migration	3	286	05.08.2024
What is the current/best way to import a vBulletin 3 forum? Support	4	1172	06.01.2021
[PAID] Migrate Existing vB forum to Discourse Marketplace	11	2097	25.10.2017

Persistent sync - vBulletin 4 to Discourse

Связанные темы