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!
@julian said in Migration from vbulletin possible?: > @Astro-What would you believe that there could be a solution for that too?
Yes, and I am also aware of several paid services that will migrate from one script to another writing a custom importer/exporter if they haven’t already. :wink:
It is just a drawback to encouraging someone running another free script to converting over. Most of those running the free stuff are doing so because they don’t want to have to spend money.
Completely understood, that’s why it’s always been such a sticking point. We have some migrators available, but it’s not always as easy as running a script and coming back to a NodeBB-compatible DB. There are always some thorny edge cases that crop up over and over again.
Unfortunately we’re not quite there yet, but perhaps we can get part of the way by consuming an ActivityPub actor’s outbox? hmm… food for thought :laughing: