Smashboards.com moving to Xenforo

[Nudaii]

I came across this on google, its either a slow server or a massive site to take 24+ hours to important threads and posts

http://www.smashboards.com/

Be interesting to see when it comes back up, the site has a wiki article, seems to be a large smash bros community

 

[Chris D]

Ack...

They should have almost definitely used Digitalpoint's crazy fast importer if it's going to take 24-48 hours.

 

[JVCode]

Looking at their forum stats from Jan 2013... Threads: 216,893, Posts: 13,506,036, Members: 125,340

 

[Chris D]

Looking at their forum stats from Jan 2013... Threads: 216,893, Posts: 13,506,036, Members: 125,340

Yeah... that'd do it...

Great to see big boards like that coming over to XenForo. Even with all the uncertainty around here

 

[MOZ]

Yeah... that'd do it...

Great to see big boards like that coming over to XenForo. Even with all the uncertainty around here

I was thinking about this, big sites coming to XF even with the case. They probably have some lawyers or better educated people who know the future is bright.

 

[jmurrayhead]

I was thinking about this, big sites coming to XF even with the case. They probably have some lawyers or better educated people who know the future is bright.

Or the brains and resources to build on the incredibly flexible XenForo architecture.

 

[Claudio]

it seems they are doing the import online while localhost is the best option..much faster!

 

[Carlos]

Last time I was there, it was.... slllllloooooooowwww.

GLAD to see they're making the big move!

Another big board goes xenForo, which is a testament to the power of KAM!

 

[Adam Howard]

One hell of an import.

But not everyone is comfortable in downloading their database to import on local host (sometimes its not possible either). Although it would be faster if that were the case.

 

[HWS]

Not very professional.

 

[digitalpoint]

Ack...

They should have almost definitely used Digitalpoint's crazy fast importer if it's going to take 24-48 hours.

Heh... Would have taken about 30 minutes with their size.

 

[Chris D]

It'd probably still get done sooner if they started again with yours now hehe...

 

[Forsaken]

Not very professional.

Until recently, they were just a stagnating community owned by MLG, and really couldn't do much but wait for approval on different things they've wanted to do. They weren't even funded for a decent style, so one of their members did their current one for them.

 

[realwx]

Hi, I'm doing the conversion, you can thank Forsaken for talking me into doing it in the first place

I went searching for Digitalpoint's converter but only found the one that imported from vBulletin 4. Didn't know you had a vB3 one haha. We also looked into the PHP CLI, but from forum posts here made me think twice about using it since apparently it skips a lot of threads.

Importing members only took an hour. 13.6mil posts to convert I think though... that's not counting the ones pre-2007 that we archived too.

 

[HWS]

Do not use the PHP CLI. It is seriously broken.
Transfer the database to a local machine. Create a RAM disk large enough to hold the databases and start from there.

 

[Deebs]

Do not use the PHP CLI. It is seriously broken.
Transfer the database to a local machine. Create a RAM disk large enough to hold the databases and start from there.

Can you provide sources to backup your claim that the PHP CLI importer is seriously broken? Want to read more into this as I used the CLI importer.

 

[Chris D]

HWS unfortunately has this habit of stating his opinion as fact. You will see this trend in many of his posts.

 

[Forsaken]

HWS unfortunately has this habit of stating his opinion as fact. You will see this trend in many of his posts.

What!? Are you saying he isn't some omnipotent being that knows anything and everything at a given time, and that every statement should not be taken as fact. Fooled me .

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Let us all sing a song together!

 

[Deebs]

Let us all sing a song together!

Brown girl in the ring....