Questions about migration from vBulletin to Xenforo

[Keyser Soze]

I am planning to migrate several big vBulletin forums to Xenforo and after doing some research there are still a few open questions:

• Does the official Xenforo-importer import the smilie-list from vBulletin 3/4? According to https://xenforo.com/community/attachments/vbulletin_4-png.89672/ it looks like it doesn't.
  
• Does the official Xenforo-importer import the vBulletin tags (since tags are an official feature of Xenforo now)? This is a must-have for me because my forums are heavily tagged and most SEO-hits are coming from tags-pages. But according to https://xenforo.com/community/attachments/vbulletin_4-png.89672/ it looks like the official importer is unable to do that.
  
• Is it possible to block email-adress-domains in Xenforo's admin options? In vBulletin there's a big textbox where I can enter all domains that I don't want to register in my forum (like @temporaryinbox.com, @spamgourmet.com etc). I am not talking about blocking single email adresses, but whole domains.

 

[whynot]

Is it possible to block email-adress-domains in Xenforo's admin options? In vBulletin there's a big textbox where I can enter all domains that I don't want to register in my forum (like @temporaryinbox.com, @spamgourmet.com etc). I am not talking about blocking single email adresses, but whole domains.

Yes, you can block the whole domain. (*@spamgourmet.com)

You may use * to represent wildcards. If you do not use any wildcards, they will automatically be added where appropriate.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Yes, you can block the whole domain. (*@spamgourmet.com)

You may use * to represent wildcards. If you do not use any wildcards, they will automatically be added where appropriate.

Where exactly can I find that option? I have created a demo admin account here on Xenforo.com and in "Options > Spam Management" and "Options > User Registration" there is no such option.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Ah ok I found it on "Users > Banned Email Addresses".

 

[Paul B]

The smiley list is not imported, you just need to set them up in XF to match.

Tags are not imported yet.

 

[Keyser Soze]

The smiley list is not imported, you just need to set them up in XF to match.

Manually inserting more than 250 smilies in 7 categories will take some time, but ok I can live with that (although vBulletin was always able to import smilies from other forum software).

Tags are not imported yet.

What does "yet" mean. Is this a feature on your todo-list? If yes, when can I expect that to be possible?

 

[Chris D]

The ability to import tags (from vBulletin 3.7 and above and IPB 3.2 and above) has been added to an upcoming update. I would currently estimate this to be released within the next week or two.

 

[Keyser Soze]

That's very good news.