Possibly moving to Xenforo

[Type RA]

Hi folks,

I run a small forum currently using vB 4.2. I foolishly made the jump from vB 3.8(IIRC) lots of plugins/mods broke so now I'm looking at Xenforo.

I've had a look around the forum & all looks good but I have a couple of questions.

1. Image uploading/resizing from desktop/tablet/mobile. How user friendly is this? Our users struggle with the vB image uploader & I'd prefer to keep images on the site so not have folks use Photobucket et al
2. vBSEO. Will Xenforo rewrite the URLs & generate the sitemaps?

Probably more questions to follow.

Thanks in advance.

Dean

 

[Jeremy]

There is no official phpBB 2 importer, but there may be an unofficial one or a two step process going through one of the officially supported importers.

 

[Type RA]

Thanks Jeremy,

I'll have a look and see what they want to do.

 

[TPerry]

Thanks Jeremy,

I'll have a look and see what they want to do.

Easiest may be (since you won't care about the add-ons) is to upgrade it to phpBB v3 and then import from there. Copy your current DB (export it then import it) to another DB and then upgrade that DB to phpBB3 then import from there.

 

[Type RA]

Easiest may be (since you won't care about the add-ons) is to upgrade it to phpBB v3 and then import from there. Copy your current DB (export it then import it) to another DB and then upgrade that DB to phpBB3 then import from there.

That was my plan. But as it's not my site I've asked them to discuss the options. Upgrade to phpBB3 & leave as is or further upgrade to Xenforo.

 

[TPerry]

That was my plan. But as it's not my site I've asked them to discuss the options. Upgrade to phpBB3 & leave as is or further upgrade to Xenforo.

Either way... I'd do the upgrade to phpBB3 anyway. Lots of fixes between the two.

 

[Type RA]

Either way... I'd do the upgrade to phpBB3 anyway. Lots of fixes between the two.

Agreed again but awaiting committee decision.

 

[Type RA]

2. You will need to add redirects for vBSEO. Users can help you create these.

Who are these users please Jeremy?

It's taken us a long time to recover from our old domain & I don't want to find us in the same position again.

Thanks

Dean

 

[TPerry]

Who are these users please Jeremy?

It's taken us a long time to recover from our old domain & I don't want to find us in the same position again.

Thanks

Dean

@Jake Bunce is probably the #1 resource (go-to guy) for it.

 

[Type RA]

First license has been bought & installed in a test directory. All looks good so far

Lots to do now.

 

[Paul B]

Welcome aboard.

 

[Liam W]

First license has been bought & installed in a test directory. All looks good so far

Lots to do now.

Echoing @Brogan, welcome aboard

Liam