Migration from vbulletin possible?

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Hello! I was wondering, I have an old vbulletin forum running on vbulletin 4.3.2. It is now locked and only kept as an archive. Would it be possible to migrate it to nodebb and resurrect it? I did a search but relevant topics were several years old.
I am especially wondering what happens with the federation feature in nodebb4 (if it's possible). The old forum has 30.000 threads and over 1.300.000 posts. Will these federate? Or only new topics? Thanks!

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@panos all threads will federate based on the category's privileges.

Can you reach out to us at [email protected]? Migration is a tricky beast and unfortunately there isn't a free script we can provide to do it

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Thank you! I might do it in the future, as it was just an idea at this point. Our community is already running a fediverse server (Firefish) and a threaded chat (Zulip). Just wanted to see if resurrecting our old forum might be an option with NodeBB

A Online

Migration is one of the things I think NodeBB is going to have the hardest time over.
I moved a site that was on SMF 2.1 over to NodeBB recently. I had to manually recreate all my posts and then create the users manually copying their data from the old SMF forum over to the new and resetting a password.
Those users were notified via email that they would need to perform a password reset if they desired to continue using the site.
The adoption rate would probably be higher if there were easy migration from other scripts into it. I am thinking primarily older vB installs, myBB, SMF and phpBB as the biggest ones.