XF 2.3 Import / Create users by email address only

[Donny]

I have lists of forum members from an old forum I shut. 23,k accounts. And I'd like to import them to an existing forum.

Is there a way to do this so I can set them all up an account, and allow them to change their usernames once logged in or something. So perhaps have them numbered or alphabetised or something?

Not sure how this could be done but somebody surely has had this problem before.

 

[Rene_V]

I have lists of forum members from an old forum I shut. 23,k accounts. And I'd like to import them to an existing forum.

I assume that that old forum was also xenforo? If I am right in my assumption, what version was it? If it was a very old version the database structure might be different from the current version. The old forum must be upgraded to version 2.3.7 first and only then you can perform a merge of both forums.

 

[Donny]

Ooooo so get it online as a forum then merge. YES XF only these days eh.

Even from 2012 did XF start, my forums been xf.

Do you have the option to merge just users. And just forums not threads. Or whatever?

How does one do this?

Thanks so much for responding

 

[Donny]

OMG.

XF 2.2 Thread 'Merging forums'

Apr 21, 2023

Hi. I'm thinking to merge my 3 forums. Both of them are running XF 2.2.

What will be the easiest way to do it?

• Faust
• Replies: 32
• Forum: XenForo questions and support

F***** awesome.

This will really help me out with some things.

Thanks @Rene_V

 

[Rene_V]

No problem @Donny!

 

[Ricsca]

have ChatGPT make a script for you

 

[Donny]

have ChatGPT make a script for you

It would spit out rubbish for this. They're big boards 2m posts each type. There's no way an untested script would cope with it.

Especially where there is already a process to do it.

 

[Ricsca]

thanks to ChatGPT I imported a very old forum with more than 1 million messages that was divided into three forums Snitz + PNphpbb2 + bbpress and I don't know how to program, I had to do a lot of tests, but in the end I did it.

 

[Donny]

That's good well done. All mine are XF and XF have an import system. So I just need decide which forum be the core one and import tge others (which i assume have thread ID changes?) And then use search console to confuse google a while when it tries to work out why threads have changed.

 

[Donny]

Still anxious about doing it. Because of mint google rankings.