Xenforo VS Vbulletin 6

[Zweeper]

Hi, I am sure this question has been answered for old versions, but, what are the big "advantages" of Xenforo compared to vBulletin "6"?
Opinions, facts? especially regarding speed and SEO and I am talking about out of the box versions.


Greetings
Zweeper

 

[ForumDevs]

Hi, there, my first post on the forum! I currently have a forum running on vBulletin 6.2.2. It has existed since 2004 and now has more than 9000 members, 18 000 topics and 700 000 posts. I am on the verge of moving to Xenforo, but I see that there is no converter from vBulletin 6. Will that cause me issues?

Hi there,

We can help you on this and develop a custom import for your site.

 

[MySiteGuy]

Hi, there, my first post on the forum! I currently have a forum running on vBulletin 6.2.2. It has existed since 2004 and now has more than 9000 members, 18 000 topics and 700 000 posts. I am on the verge of moving to Xenforo, but I see that there is no converter from vBulletin 6. Will that cause me issues?

We've had a custom importer since shortly after the first 6.x release of vBulletin, and have handled several of these. It addresses the changes introduced in vB 6, as well as some items that Xenforo left out in their vB 5.x importer such as the galleries in user profiles.

You can contact me via the link in my signature.

Thank you.

 

[raytrails]

 

[Milforum]

Hi, there, my first post on the forum! I currently have a forum running on vBulletin 6.2.2. It has existed since 2004 and now has more than 9000 members, 18 000 topics and 700 000 posts. I am on the verge of moving to Xenforo, but I see that there is no converter from vBulletin 6. Will that cause me issues?

Thanks to those offering to help me out, but I actually managed to do it myself, with lots of assistance from Copilot. Fun, although a bit frustrating, manually editing those PHP files and doing database tweaks. Anyhow, the transition is done and everything is running smoothly and much faster than on vBulletin.

 

[craigForo]

Thanks to those offering to help me out, but I actually managed to do it myself, with lots of assistance from Copilot. Fun, although a bit frustrating, manually editing those PHP files and doing database tweaks. Anyhow, the transition is done and everything is running smoothly and much faster than on vBulletin.

Please consider sharing your resources for those of us wanting to do the same thing

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Please consider sharing your resources for those of us wanting to do the same thing

Its very simple. Take a backup of your site, put it on your hard drive, uncompress it. Do a local install of xenforo (already lots of instructions on that). Open claude or codex with local computer access, have them analyse the db of xenforo and site makeup of vb6, it will write a converter script, you run it. Fix anything, delete, run it again. When you have it right, deploy it on your server, do the same, convert vb6 into xf.

 

[Dragonfruit]

Personally I rather create test sites, and export those DBs for AI to look at. Those would be test DBs, containing none of people's personal information. But that's me.

All they need is the DB infrastructure, not the data.