That part seems to ring true - I was looking for an XF > XF importer, but why bother making that when you can just upgrade, and then move it to the new URL and run find/replace to fix links.
Thanks!!
Well, "best way" is relative to what need to be accomplished.
My goal is to essentially end up with a "clean" or "vanilla" installation, free of any prior addons.
To me, it seems like the best way to achieve this is to do a clean install of XF2.x and then import the old 1.5 forum into it...
Can you elaborate on why this might not be a good idea?
I'm guessing that there is a possibility that things could get "reordered" or "compacted" if I had to use a similar reference. So if there were 2000 users but 30% of them had been hard-deleted, it might get rid of the spaces. Same for...
Side note: I'll add that I bought a better URL a number of years ago, and eventually wanted to transition to that URL. It's a valuable acronym and I had the opportunity to buy it, so I go from something like "longwesbitenamebro" to "lwnb".
So, ideally, I would do the clean install on the new...
Thanks @Sim I appreciate the advice!
At one point, a year or so ago, I went through and did this exact thing - evaluating upgrade paths, etc - but then didn't have the time to finish it due to work (real job).
In that time, these forums have essentially died off. So really my main goal is not...
I have 2 forums that have just been on autopilot for a while....not heavily used. Versions per title.
These have many various addons but at this point, due to the low site use (many factors there) I'm kinda considering just taking a "clean slate" approach. Meaning, bring in the content but...
I just got a message from a forum that I have an account on that they are using this app for mobile devices.
https://gather.forum/
Does anyone use this? Any feedback/experiences?