vBulletin 3.2.3 to XenForo?

BayouKid

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Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to inherit part of a very active forum that is running on antiquated vBulletin 3.2.3.

I'd like to replatform this onto XenForo (on a much more modern host, etc.), and I'm wondering if there's an importer that will pull from a version of vBulletin this old? I've tried to comb through the documentation but I can't find anything specific about versions.

Upgrading the old vBulletin to something newer is an option, but obviously I'd like to skip that step if I can.

Best,
Mike
 
Thank you. I'll let our sysadmin know that we'd need to get up to at least 3.6.
alternatively, you could hire someone to migrate from 3.2 to Xenforo. Some import specialist. @Slavik would be ideal. or just post a request in here
 
Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to inherit part of a very active forum that is running on antiquated vBulletin 3.2.3.

I'd like to replatform this onto XenForo (on a much more modern host, etc.), and I'm wondering if there's an importer that will pull from a version of vBulletin this old? I've tried to comb through the documentation but I can't find anything specific about versions.

Upgrading the old vBulletin to something newer is an option, but obviously I'd like to skip that step if I can.

Best,
Mike
Are you sure you're reading (or typing) that version number correctly?
vBulletin's versioning jumped from 3.0.x to 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x, skipping 3.1.x to 3.4.x releases.
 
If you have addons .... there are lots of snags.
you can always try yourself, but there can be gotchas.
Noted. Thanks. I'm new to this forum stuff, but I've spent about 25 years in corporate IT and this isn't my first data migration rodeo.

Good to know that there's people here with deep expertise in this space—both from the perspective of advice giving and for hire if we want to outsource this.

Mike
 
If you're going to do the import yourself, read this first.

 
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