Conversion Service

[Manna Central]

Hi,

I have a fried who is looking to move his forum from IPS4 to Xenforo

He would like to know do you offer a paid for conversion and installation service?

Thanks in advance.

Take care,

Keith

 

[Paul B]

We don't offer import services.

Your friend would need to contract a third party.

 

[Manna Central]

Many thanks for your swift reply, it is much appreciated

Do you have a list of people you would recommend?

If not how easy is the conversion process? I am somewhat IT literate so providing the process is not over complicated I could try and do the conversion myself

 

[Paul B]

It's fairly straightforward using the built in importer.

Most customers feel comfortable doing it themselves.

 

[Robust]

XF has a built in importer since the latest release (1.5.3?). It's honest a few clicks of a button. A baby could do it. Depends on the size of your board whether or not that'll be the best option, but I imagine for < 75,000 posts that'll be a feasible option. I'm not sure at what point it becomes inefficient or buggy, as I've never tried it with such a huge import. Only the ones below a certain amount of posts.

 

[TPerry]

I was probably amongst one of the first to bring alive site over from IPS 4.1.3 to XenForo 1.5.3. I had very few issues, and those that I did have were due to it being an EARLY BETA of the importer. Pretty sure the feedback they were given resolved those issues (they were very minor).

 

[Manna Central]

Thanks for everyones input, it is very much appreciated

The guy is an ex soldier/vet and runs a reunion website and is not very tech orientated about these things, in fact that is the very reason I am here asking the questions as it usually falls to me to take care of the more technical issues

 

[rv65]

@Slavik and @Claudio are also good options for your friend if you need to import a forum.

 

[Manna Central]

Thanks for that, I will bear them in mind

 

[Egspriinn]

XF has a built in importer since the latest release (1.5.3?). It's honest a few clicks of a button. A baby could do it. Depends on the size of your board whether or not that'll be the best option, but I imagine for < 75,000 posts that'll be a feasible option. I'm not sure at what point it becomes inefficient or buggy, as I've never tried it with such a huge import. Only the ones below a certain amount of posts.

Good .Thank you !!!

 

[Jim Kingsnorth]

The importer is excellent. I imported 3 databases into Xenforo (4000 members, 16,000+ threads and 315,000+ posts. It took me 8 hours to complete it, only because I was new to the software and had to figure some things out.