Converting Forum Software

[Ste]

Have you ever converted your forums software?

If you have how did it go, did you have any problems?

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

I havnt yet, although I almost did. I had a phpBB3 forum and I was looking at moving to MyBB, but I thought better of it. I had issues with just updating, I cant stand to think of what could have happened in a forum move -~-

At some point ill need to convert to IPB though (or so I hope) and that should be fun...

 

[Murder he Wrote]

I attempted converting the PixelRaider forum from phpBB to vBulletin once using Impex, although something went wrong and I ended up with everything being transferred (users, topics, posts etc...) just that the posts / categories / overall forum structure didn't actually show up..at all. Just the default "Welcome to vBulletin" topic in the "test category" would show up, with the "Total Posts: 4,000" showing in the bottom ~lol~

 

[Jasonp]

The only conversion ive done was PHPBB3 > MyBB and it went smooth everything transfered members posts etc..

MyBB's Merge System is an awsum peace of software works greatly and converts from many formats and its easy to use.

Ive also done phpbb2 > 3 but its more of an upgrade than a conversion but that went smoothly too.

 

[Callum93]

I converted from SMF to phpBB on sunday. It wasn't actually that difficult and didn't take very long either.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Never done it before, but if I had a backup of Anime Mangatism, I would convert it to SMF in a heartbeat. Converting to SMF is a breeze I have heard. I haven't tried it, but I may do it with a test forum to try it out.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

^Doing your own tests is usally the best thing to do. If your thinking about changing software you can always make a backup and convert it to different software to see how it look/feels, and if you like it just restore a newer backup from there. Ive heard most conversions go pretty fast, with few issues, although we all know that everything has issues at times.

 

[spyka]

I've converted phpBB3 to VB3.7.x and it was easy with Impex and every transferred fine.

 

[DaReapers]

I have not yet converted my forum to any other forum software.. i have been running on phpBB till now.....

 

[Callum93]

I've converted phpBB3 to VB3.7.x and it was easy with Impex and every transferred fine.

But you are a genius -lol- wouldn't go wrong.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

I agree with sbfc93 on that one, I would have surprised if you did have trouble -razz-

Has anyone converted phpBB to IPB? Id like to know for future refernece.

 

[MasterA]

I have converter forum softwares in the past from IPB to Xenforr and I thought that the IPB converters was very nice and easy to use so I didn't have many problems. My database was also quite small so the whole process was relatively quick.

 

[bobey]

Converting forum with me is so dangerous, because my forum has a big data, which could cause a lot of problems and bugs when transfer the database. In my opinion, if it is not necessary, do not convert your forum

 

[Thomasss]

No, I never found a use to convert. We were always small enough, and changed our minds so frequently it got to the point where converting posts, etc. was not worth the time.

That, and you don't get everything back. Kind of sucks. 🙁