xenForo is so nice...

[Bonsai Coder]

I'm almost crying

After hobbling along with vBulletin all these years... OMG. I've owned this software for 5 days and it is so intuitive...

 

[rafass]

Don't cry..
Xenforo and the community of xenForo is great.

 

[ophy]

I'm feeling he same sentiment Bonsai! This piece of software has almost no cons compared to my needs from vBulletin and the support so far is really awesome

 

[TickTackk]

Something Something

• TickTackk
• Feb 4, 2015

 

[oldzy]

Cryin... waitin... hopin.

 

[Bonsai Coder]

Crying... as I see my Google stats soar...

 

[New Joe]

Well I was on here nearly everyday when I was changing over from vB to Xenforo getting thing ready and understanding it all.
Now I've changed to Xenforo I pop in from time to time here but that's about it, why? Well it just works and works great, happy I did the switch....

 

[DaveM]

Well I was on here nearly everyday when I was changing over from vB to Xenforo getting thing ready and understanding it all.
Now I've changed to Xenforo I pop in from time to time here but that's about it, why? Well it just works and works great, happy I did the switch....

and this is what we told you when you first asked about it

 

[gajinoz]

Well I was on here nearly everyday when I was changing over from vB to Xenforo getting thing ready and understanding it all.
Now I've changed to Xenforo I pop in from time to time here but that's about it, why? Well it just works and works great, happy I did the switch....

This is something I can see myself doing some time in the forseeable future. I'd be interested to hear how your move went. Did you have any major hassles or unexpected problems/issues, that sort of thing?

 

[New Joe]

I'd be interested to hear how your move went. Did you have any major hassles or unexpected problems/issues, that sort of thing?

Not really no, I did around 3 full test imports, making sure things went ok.
On the day of the real import it went smoothly and just had to tidy up some permissions as they work a little different than vB..
That's the key imho, do test imports and get things right.
If you hit a problem post about it on here, or search to see if anyone else has had the same problem.

 

[gajinoz]

OK, that's great. What method did you use for the tests? Backup default xenforo install and DB, import, restore XF defaults, reimport .... and so on. Or did you do something else?

 

[New Joe]

OK, that's great. What method did you use for the tests? Backup default xenforo install and DB, import, restore XF defaults, reimport .... and so on. Or did you do something else?

I installed Xenforo onto a / folder with it's own data base, so example my domain www . mydoamin.com/xentest
Then I put my vB Forum into maintenance mode
Then back to my Xenforo test site and did the import from my vB forum into Xenforo
Then did al the playing around I wanted to with the Xenforo test site then deleted everything and did it again, each time learning something new, solving new problems, installing add ons and skins and such until I was ready for the real import,,,

 

[gajinoz]

Sounds like a good plan. What did you use for the import?

 

[New Joe]

What did you use for the import?

Not sure I understand
Xenforo has a built in import tool, very easy to use and worked fine for me

 

[gajinoz]

That was the answer I was looking for. Thanks.

 

[Bonsai Coder]

I feel like I need to come back and comment once more for the record. March 6... no issues. This produce is sooooo slick. I enabled location showing up in member's profiles, and it auto-links location to Google Maps. There are so many tiny touches like this in this product, I can't say enough about it. My members have all responded favorably and my site traffic is up 25% just from the mobile functionality.

Great job, xenForo!