ShikiSuen
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I mean this repository on GitHub:
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Currently, XenForo official importer supports import from MyBB, vBulletin, etc. However, it has lack of suport for Discuz and PHPWind.
PHPWind is already dead; Discuz development has been rebooted but cannot be a good competitive in the next few years.
Both of them are the most welcomed forum softwares in the Mainland China.
Formerly, vBulletin 3.x had a good market share until the closure of vBulletin China sub-company due to decisions made by Internet Brands. This made them switched to Discuz.
However, I guess people here cannot imagine why current Discuz develop team gets cursed viciously by most of their commercial users just because they forgot to keep compatibility with PHP 5.2 releases.
The current template system of Discuz (X3.4) is at the same tech level to vBulletin 2.x, regardless that it looks really multi-functional in the front.
There are lots of non-opensource commercial addons being sold in Discuz addon / template store in high prices, and Discuz has to be fell behind from XenForo in competition of latest forum technologies.
I guess XenForo official may still have lack of motivation to provide official support of importing forum data from Discuz (X2, X3) and PHPWind (6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x).
Also, Xf importer is not open-sourced on GitHub.
That's why I am thinking that whether it is a good idea to use community power to make vbImpex usable for XenForo.
At least, we can make the import modules for vbImpex to make sure data from Discuz and / or PHPWind can be imported to vBulletin 3.8.x as intact as possible, and then Xf importer can read the vBulletin 3.x data.
Feel free to share your thoughts here.
GitHub - internetbrands/vbimpex
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Currently, XenForo official importer supports import from MyBB, vBulletin, etc. However, it has lack of suport for Discuz and PHPWind.
PHPWind is already dead; Discuz development has been rebooted but cannot be a good competitive in the next few years.
Both of them are the most welcomed forum softwares in the Mainland China.
Formerly, vBulletin 3.x had a good market share until the closure of vBulletin China sub-company due to decisions made by Internet Brands. This made them switched to Discuz.
However, I guess people here cannot imagine why current Discuz develop team gets cursed viciously by most of their commercial users just because they forgot to keep compatibility with PHP 5.2 releases.
The current template system of Discuz (X3.4) is at the same tech level to vBulletin 2.x, regardless that it looks really multi-functional in the front.
There are lots of non-opensource commercial addons being sold in Discuz addon / template store in high prices, and Discuz has to be fell behind from XenForo in competition of latest forum technologies.
I guess XenForo official may still have lack of motivation to provide official support of importing forum data from Discuz (X2, X3) and PHPWind (6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x).
Also, Xf importer is not open-sourced on GitHub.
That's why I am thinking that whether it is a good idea to use community power to make vbImpex usable for XenForo.
At least, we can make the import modules for vbImpex to make sure data from Discuz and / or PHPWind can be imported to vBulletin 3.8.x as intact as possible, and then Xf importer can read the vBulletin 3.x data.
Feel free to share your thoughts here.
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