# Wat is de huidige/beste manier om een vBulletin 3 forum te importeren?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [27 november 2020 om 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452 "2020-11-27T00:00:14Z")
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [27 november 2020 om 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452/1 "2020-11-27T00:00:14Z")
I am considering updating one of my vB 3 (3.6 I think) forums to Discourse and just wondering what the current best practices are?
I have considered just downloading the username and email addresses then simply creating new users with that info (anyone wanting to log-in can reset their password) but it would be nice to bring over avatars and profile info too - just wondered what the options are and what others have done 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [27 november 2020 om 00:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452/2 "2020-11-27T00:18:23Z")
There is a vb4 script. I don’t know if it works for vb3. You can search for details. If you have a budget, you can post on #Marketplace or contact me. I have done many imports. It’s your host here for a year they’ll import your data for free.
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [27 november 2020 om 06:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452/3 "2020-11-27T06:05:01Z")
I think @neounix is a vB3 expert here, can’t find the topic where he details his journey though.
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### Author:  [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)
#### Post date: [27 november 2020 om 06:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452/4 "2020-11-27T06:29:24Z")
> [@michaeld](#):
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> … can’t find the topic where he details his journey though.
Here ya go!
> [@Completed Migration vB3 to Discourse including Legacy vB3 Thank You to Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completed-migration-vb3-to-discourse-including-legacy-vb3-thank-you-to-likes/144674):
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> Just completed, for the most part (still in test bed, but the “hard parts” are basically done and the migration works fine), migrating a 15 year old vb3 forum, which was originally (believe-it-or-not) a vb2 forum from 2000. This forum has been around for around 20 years (with unimaginable custom PHP code, tables, plugins, etc), and Discourse is the only forum software, in my view, “worthy” of a migration project, which I started around a week ago, going from feasibility to completion (basically…
See also:
> **[Migration to Discourse](https://community.unix.com/c/discourse/migration-discourse/9)**
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> Migration to Discourse from vB3
> [@Completed Migration vB3 to Discourse including Legacy vB3 Thank You to Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completed-migration-vb3-to-discourse-including-legacy-vb3-thank-you-to-likes/144674):
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> Just completed, for the most part (still in test bed, but the “hard parts” are basically done and the migration works fine), migrating a 15 year old vb3 forum, which was originally (believe-it-or-not) a vb2 forum from 2000. This forum has been around for around 20 years (with unimaginable custom PHP code, tables, plugins, etc), and Discourse is the only forum software, in my view, “worthy” of a migration project, which I started around a week ago, going from feasibility to completion (basically…
Hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [6 januari 2021 om 15:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-current-best-way-to-import-a-vbulletin-3-forum/171452/5 "2021-01-06T15:17:17Z")
Thanks!
I just had an idea, I actually own a Xenforo licence so I could always import the forum into that and then into Discourse as I believe there is an official Xenforo to Discourse importer for the version of XF I have (will have to check that once I find the official importers thread). I’ve done a vB 3 to XF import before and that worked fine, so it could be a good strategy.