Not sure who told you we were hours from migrating to XenForo, but we were never hours from doing it. Nor were any plans we had for XenForo abandoned at *any* hour.
I've always said if we do switch platforms, we would do it when we are ready (primarily meaning no loss of features of the current site). The fact that our site has a forum is secondary to the rest of the site (the site was around for about 10 years before the forum, and the forum was started primarily because we needed a support venue for our existing products/tools). What this means is we have ~1.5M lines of custom code written around the vBulletin framework that would need to be rewritten for the XenForo framework. Not something that can be changed with the flip of a switch.
That being said, we do have a fairly impressive XenForo installation running on our dev servers...
We have a lot of complex tools/products that we can't just shut down (they have to be rewritten), the largest being our
Keyword Tracker and
Digital Point Ads platform.
We've also had to rebuild systems in XenForo that are there, but lacking in functionality vs. what we currently have. For example search... we need the ability to search for users, user notes, conversations, etc. which we've done in XF:
Then we had to tackle things that users will never see. For example the normal import process is too slow (can't take the site down for days/weeks), and doesn't import everything. So I built an importer that can do it in about 30 minutes (including stuff that normally is ignored like moderator/deletion logs, daily stats, "friendships", Facebook Connect links, user upgrades, what threads/forums they have read, warnings, bans, etc.)... Which is almost 18M posts, 620k users, 2.9M threads, etc.
Code:
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### Digital Point A.R.F.I. vB4 -> XF Importer ###
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1 - Posts
2 - Users
3 - Threads
4 - Private Messages
5 - Avatars
6 - Attachments
7 - Forums
8 - Miscellaneous
9 - Everything
Make Selection [1-9]: 9
exporting posts...
[forking process for posts]
posts IPs (17,889,218 records in 245.07s)...
likes (379,074 records in 2.85s)...
Total time for posts: 247.92s
exporting users...
[forking process for users & user authenticate]
user external auth (15,185 records in 7.11s)...
user follow (200,960 records in 0.67s)...
user ignored (10,525 records in 0.18s)...
user notes (29,833 records in 3.18s)...
user options (620,660 records in 5.60s)...
user profile (620,660 records in 57.19s)...
user privacy (620,660 records in 7.07s)...
user warnings (393,713 records in 104.62s)...
user bans (23,622 records in 3.49s)...
warning action triggers (23,622 records in 2.62s)...
user field (126,072 records in 13.09s)...
user registration IPs (620,660 records in 7.26s)...
user account confirmation IPs (188,222 records in 4.72s)...
user change log (423,414 records in 6.92s)...
user change log IPs (297,353 records in 3.56s)...
profile posts (52,596 records in 1.42s)...
profile post IPs (48,580 records in 3.21s)...
user upgrades active (542 records in 0.03s)...
user upgrades expired (1,751 records in 0.04s)...
user upgrades log (6,427 records in 0.38s)...
Total time for users: 232.36s
*** Don't forget to rebuild user cache ***
exporting threads...
[forking process for threads]
watched threads (10,602,569 records in 26.89s)...
polls (238,323 records in 46.17s)...
thread read (299,867 records in 3.72s)...
Total time for threads: 49.89s
*** Don't forget to rebuild poll cache ***
exporting private messages...
[forking process for conversation master]
conversation message (552,557 records in 421.57s)...
conversation recipient (824,245 records in 16.57s)...
conversation user (824,245 records in 16.14s)...
conversation IPs (539,583 records in 8.67s)...
Total time for private messages: 463.06s
performing avatar diff...
53 users with new avatars
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1 users with deleted avatars
Total time for avatars: 35.98s
performing attachment diff...
108 new attachments
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updating attachment view count
Total time for attachments: 9.53s
exporting forums...
nodes (147 records in 0.26s)...
forums (140 records in 0.13s)...
link forums (10 records in 0.13s)...
forum read (12,482 records in 0.18s)...
watched forums (3,154 records in 0.27s)...
Total time for forums: 0.97s
exporting micellaneous stuff...
deletion log (944,384 records in 11.62s)...
moderator log (856,726 records in 39.17s)...
daily stats (18,302 records in 15.42)...
directory categories (12 records in 0.02)...
directory entries (341 records in 0.11)...
Total time for micellaneous stuff: 62.47s
[waiting on process for users & user authenticate] DONE.
[waiting on process for conversation master] DONE.
[waiting on process for threads] DONE.
[waiting on process for posts] DONE.
Grand Total For Everything: 31 minutes, 19 seconds (63,231,799 records)
On top of it stuff custom to just our site, I've had to build stuff that XenForo is missing (I've built master/slave DB support for it, user notes, post edit history, user change logs, etc.) And I've had to "fix" things that I consider broken (like various issues with TinyMCE).
And then I even built a ton of stuff that I've wanted to build for the existing site, that I just haven't done yet. For example users can link all sorts of third party accounts (6 of them) for various reasons, added full support for rel="author"...
Huh? What medicine is that? I don't get pissed off at people for not doing something fast enough on their site that really doesn't affect me. lol
And I don't snarl at anyone that asks. But if people start acting like we somehow owe them a definitive answer about when exactly (or even IF for that matter), then yeah... I don't really have much to say. If *I* knew, I could say, but since I don't... and I'm not a psychic. We are far more interested in something being done right/well than something being done by a certain date. If my *actual* best answer for a question is "I don't know", and that answer isn't good enough for whoever is asking, I'm not sure what else to say. I could make something up, but then I would be lying. {shrug}
I've never said anything other than we would not move to XenForo unless we were ready (again... mostly meaning we don't lose existing site functionality). If you (or anyone else) would like to assist, great.
