Migrating from vbulletin 5.1

[slinouille]

Hello,

I currently use vBulletin 5.1 for handling my forum but I'm really unsatisfied with it since I migrated from vB4.
So I'm looking for a new forum and xenForo seems to fit my expectations in terms of specification.

Now I need to evaluate how I could migrate from vB5.1.9 to xenForo, and after some search here around I could not clearly see if it exists an "importer" for this release of vB. I do see some for previous release but not vB5.

Is there any plan for such importer to be created?

Many thanks

SliN

 

[Paul B]

We don't have a native importer for VB 5 unfortunately.

You would have to do a double import to one of the supported importers: VB5 -> IPB/SMF/MyBB/etc. -> XF

That assumes there is an importer available for the other scripts to import VB5.

New importers are developed based on need and while there have been a few requests, it isn't something which has been asked that often (relatively speaking).

 

[slinouille]

Thanks for your answer.

I will perform some tests using the IPB importer ;-)

 

[Chris D]

FYI, that would have to be IPB 3.x at this stage. We don't support importing from IPB 4 at the moment.

 

[Paul B]

For reference, the current list of importers can be seen here: Pre-Sales FAQ

 

[rv65]

Thanks for your answer.

I will perform some tests using the IPB importer ;-)

Also, @Claudio at Todo10 can import your vB5 board as well. He does a pretty good job, and not that expensive.