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### Author:  [@David\_Ghost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Ghost)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/4 "2024-09-23T20:23:09Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> That’s because not much has changed. I suspect that no news is good news.
true. I have migrated my xf 2.2 to discourse in the past and it worked very well. Not sure but i think I just needed to change the images/avatars path in the config file.
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### Author:  [@moshbit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/moshbit)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/5 "2024-11-16T17:54:26Z")
just my two cents here, since it will vastly differ from what most people are saying.
despite contributing quite a bit to the big xenforo thread folks have linked to (see my posts and screenshots there), i was NOT able to get the xenforo importer to work, despite testing across multiple versions and even with a vanilla install of a fresh xenforo system. while i’m not a ruby programmer, it’s pretty obvious the importer is broken, and no one is willing to work on fixing it.
i gave up because despite my extensive input, the consensus was ‘pay someone to do it’ rather than anyone volunteering to fix the importer and take my input seriously.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/6 "2024-11-16T17:59:57Z")
> [@moshbit](#):
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> take my input seriously.
hmmm, maybe I am missing something, but I think being able to pay for something vs asking for free work likely doesn’t have anything to do with how serious your input is being taken. People have successfully migrated Xenforo to Discourse.
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### Author:  [@moshbit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/moshbit)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/7 "2024-11-16T18:04:53Z")
I’m perfectly willing to pay for the work, but you’re lumping in two different subjects that are going on in that thread. I don’t see trying to contribute to the importer as asking for ‘free work’. I’m putting in 40+ hours of testing and documentation, and frankly, the response I’ve gotten from the community, much like your post, has largely been overly defensive, rather than productive.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/8 "2024-11-16T18:14:35Z")
I saw that you [posted in marketplace about this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-xenforo-2-2-to-discourse/221596) - were you able to get a fix?
also, you clearly said “volunteering” which I interpreted as free work. maybe try posting in #Marketplace again if you are willing to pay for more work?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/9 "2024-11-16T20:13:42Z")
> [@moshbit](#):
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> it’s pretty obvious the importer is broken, and no one is willing to work on fixing it.
Only someone who has access to a Xenforo database can work to fix it. Saying that it’s broken, and even exactly how, isn’t enough for anyone to use your information to fix the script.
It’s pretty obvious that the script worked for whoever it was that submitted it and that Xenforo has changed since then.
The set of people on the planet who care about any import script is very, very small, typically only one (or one community) at any given instant. That is, people who care Xenforo don’t care about Discourse, and people who care about Discourse don’t care about Xenforo.
Looks like I last did a Xenforo import in April 2023. Glancing at the diff, it looks like I didn’t do much but change the name of the user(s) table. I see code that does something about attachments and a gallery, and I sort of remember doing something about those attachments, as the site has a bunch of images. As I recall, it was pretty good and the client was very happy with it.
If you’re still working on it and don’t have a budget, I can send you the file in a gist or something.
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### Author:  [@SubStrider](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SubStrider)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/10 "2024-12-30T06:08:32Z")
What is usually a budget for getting the migration done or the migration issues troubleshooting done? Asking so that I can take a decision if I have the appetite for it.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/11 "2024-12-30T13:30:42Z")
> [@SubStrider](#):
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> or the migration issues troubleshooting done?
It completely depends on what needs to be fixed. It could take hours or days of work.
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### Author:  [@SubStrider](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SubStrider)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/12 "2024-12-30T14:13:40Z")
OK maybe I should have asked, what is typically a per hour/day charge for such services.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/xenforo-2-3-migration/327812/13 "2024-12-30T21:26:03Z")
My rate is $300/hour. I usually can provide an estimate for a migration, but not until I’ve seen and done some tests on the database. Even for a well-maintained import script, it’s not uncommon for their to be site-specific issues (plugins, strange formatting habits and expectations of the community, and a bunch of other stuff) that make importing a particular database troublesome.
If the database isn’t too big and the changes are not too many $1500 is a wild guess.
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