Just brought the forums of a Neverwinter Nights roleplaying server off of phpnuke using a port of phpBB on to NodeBB.

The new forums are hosted at https://narfell.us/forum/

Hey there NodeBB community!

I'm posting partially to get the word out for an import plugin that I'm working on for phpbb installs in phpnuke and also to request any tips.

Unfortunately, I can't use the existing phpbb plugin because of how the port for phpnuke mixes the data into phpnuke data in the MySQL database. Regardless, a lot of these importers were incredibly helpful to reference so thank you to all you authors out there (@psychobunny for a lot of them) and to @akhoury for the import plugin.

As it stands, my plugin is working on my NodeBB install at version 1.7.5 stood up behind nginx on linode. I'm planning to upgrade to 1.10.x or latest after I run my final migration and bbcode to markdown conversion pending investigating to plugin support drop off for newer NodeBB versions (advice here also very welcome).

Without further adieu, you can find the source code for the import plugin at the following link: nodebb-plugin-import-phpnuke-phpbb

Looking forward to any feedback!

Been offline for a bit but it looks like this has been addressed. This has been fixed by @julian in commit d33d965 to nodebb-theme-persona and commit 9d202d9 to nodebb.

Thanks Julian!

Not that I'm aware of. If the group is marked hidden then neither a member nor an owner of that group can navigate to the group via http://www.forum.com/groups/some-group. Perhaps I am using the wrong settings though. What I'd like is a group that

1. Doesn't appear in listings to non-members
2. Appears to members and owners or a way for members and owners to navigate to the group management page
3. Is invite only

Originally, I though private would do the trick. However, although private disables join requests, non-members can still see the group in the listings.

Does something like this exist?

Hope so! Seems like there's at least one other site using this port of phpbb. Perhaps more if they cleaned out the attribution footer markup or aren't indexed by google.