Looking for a Xenforo alternative
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@Dielan said:
Hello NodeBB community!
I am currently on a team that manages a web forum for a gaming community that's currently running Xenforo. We have been looking for alternatives to our forum and I was wondering if any of you have experiences you would like to share when it comes to migrating an existing Xenforo to NodeBB? Strongly considering trying out NodeBB!
Thank you in advance!
I am curious as to why you want to stop using xenforo for a gaming forum?
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@StuartH said:
@Dielan said:
Hello NodeBB community!
I am currently on a team that manages a web forum for a gaming community that's currently running Xenforo. We have been looking for alternatives to our forum and I was wondering if any of you have experiences you would like to share when it comes to migrating an existing Xenforo to NodeBB? Strongly considering trying out NodeBB!
Thank you in advance!
I am curious as to why you want to stop using xenforo for a gaming forum?
Well xenforo is still a good choice for a gaming community but we are still pretty new. One of our larger concerns is xenforos cost, and the costs of removing unwanted features such as branding. Its really just a ratio of what we need vs how much xf expects us to pay for it that we are currently unhappy with.
I'm also a huge fan of open source software
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@bentael said:
@Dielan after Feb 13th, (be back from vacation), if you can provide me a decent DATABASE dump of a recent version of Xenforo, I will create an exporter 10 days after.
I could provide you with one or two reasonably large dumps. Reasonably meaning one kind-of large and one ludicrously large. However, both of these forums have plenty of plugins installed, some of which add their own fields and/or tables, though all tables present in vanilla XF should have xenforo_ as a prefix.
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fair enough, the first dump sounds a proper one to start with, I can write a starting point for exporter with all the "native" XF fields, as for the plugins fields, these will need to be added per-installation-export
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@Dielan just send it (or a download link) to my email [email protected]
but i have to tell you that there is a line now:~0. Make the -import plugin 4.0 compatible
- exporter for PhpBB
- exporter for Questions2Answers
- exporter for XenForo
I should just open up issues on the importer's repo so you can track those down, will do that soon
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Get in touch when Simple Machines appears on your roadmap, I've got a 24k posts db if you'd like to play with it. Unless someone has already managed this and would like to help me get mine done too, it's the only thing stopping me transferring over yesterday...
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@bentael I'm working on a phpBB exporter right now, hopefully you haven't started yet
@ninja-scott on its way...
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@psychobunny was planning on doing so this weekend, since you started, I 'll work on getting the -importer up to the 0.4.x signatures. The "exported" structure should not change at all, and if it needs to be, i will backward support.
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sounds good
