nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading?
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Hi,
I'm exploring the possibility of converting our 100,000+ post forum from phpBB 3.3.15 to nodeBB.
I previously converted the forum from another system (WebWiz IIRC) about 9 years ago and that was a big job so I was interested to see that NodeBB has a plugin that might handle a lot of the conversion for me.
However, I note from the GitHub Repository Readme for this plugin that it only supports NodeBB version 1.12.1 which is now quite a long way behind. Also, AFAICT the phpBB Exporter may not be up with the latest phpBB version.
What would be involved in upgrading nodebb-plugin-import to support nodeBB 4.x?
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Hi,
I'm exploring the possibility of converting our 100,000+ post forum from phpBB 3.3.15 to nodeBB.
I previously converted the forum from another system (WebWiz IIRC) about 9 years ago and that was a big job so I was interested to see that NodeBB has a plugin that might handle a lot of the conversion for me.
However, I note from the GitHub Repository Readme for this plugin that it only supports NodeBB version 1.12.1 which is now quite a long way behind. Also, AFAICT the phpBB Exporter may not be up with the latest phpBB version.
What would be involved in upgrading nodebb-plugin-import to support nodeBB 4.x?
Hey @rob-hills
Looked at something similar a few years back migrating a large MyBB community across to NodeBB - I ended up placing it in the "too hard" basket ........... Unfortunately it looks like someone developed that importer a long time ago, and it didn't keep up with future updates.
Because it only worked with that specific NodeBB version (1.12.1) then you could upgrade it after-the-fact, I struggled to build a compatible environment to get a working 1.12.1 install.
You'd probably have to do a bit of work to get this going - and I say that as someone who's built the odd forum-to-forum migration converter tool in the past!
Shame there's no "Official" importer like some other forum softwares have.
I may potentially have some notes somewhere documenting my findings on this when I last tried. I'll try and have a look for them and would be happy to share - they may be of use, they may not! (and knowing my record for keeping notes, some of it probably won't even make sense to me when I go back and re-read it!)
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Hi,
I'm exploring the possibility of converting our 100,000+ post forum from phpBB 3.3.15 to nodeBB.
I previously converted the forum from another system (WebWiz IIRC) about 9 years ago and that was a big job so I was interested to see that NodeBB has a plugin that might handle a lot of the conversion for me.
However, I note from the GitHub Repository Readme for this plugin that it only supports NodeBB version 1.12.1 which is now quite a long way behind. Also, AFAICT the phpBB Exporter may not be up with the latest phpBB version.
What would be involved in upgrading nodebb-plugin-import to support nodeBB 4.x?
@rob-hills I'd ask @linc@phpc.social — he's been working on a NodeBB importer and this is right up his alley.
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> @julian said:
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> @rob-hills I'd ask @linc@phpc.social — he's been working on a NodeBB importer and this is right up his alley.Thanks, @julian , will @linc@phpc.social be alerted by your reference to him? I'm new so I still don't know how this all works.
I'm a bit wary of harassing anyone with direct contact so soon after joining up!
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> @julian said:
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> @rob-hills I'd ask @linc@phpc.social — he's been working on a NodeBB importer and this is right up his alley.Thanks, @julian , will @linc@phpc.social be alerted by your reference to him? I'm new so I still don't know how this all works.
I'm a bit wary of harassing anyone with direct contact so soon after joining up!
@rob-hills yes, the mention will notify him <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://community.nodebb.org/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=0decc882adb" title="
" />He runs https://nitroporter.org/
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