I'm Tired Of This. Help Me Test Phorum Replacement.

[AnneLine]

I wouldn't worry about archiving your stuff. I will keep this phorum here no matter what happens , simply for SEO / search engine reasons. If we move to a new system I'd simply make this current phorum read-only.

 

dUSt that would be wonderful.  Because I do use a lot of the things on Phatmass (both in the regular threads and in the PMs) as a database.... it wouldn't be perfect to have to cut & paste from them, but it would be very useful!  :)  :heart:

[dUSt]

Well, just got an email from my webhost telling me to disable the new forum because it was causing database issues. *sigh*

[Winchester]

[bernadette d]

Well, just got an email from my webhost telling me to disable the new forum because it was causing database issues. *sigh*

 

Oh no! only just got on it!

[IcePrincessKRS]

Oh, and here I have one that started back in April and has been going on-and-off until now, and the exported HTML only goes to May. Wat? That's not useful. I need all of it.

 

First world problems. :huh:

[franciscanheart]

First world problems. :huh:

If by first-world you mean... well, never mind.  :pinch:

[AnneLine]

oh boy.  You can't win, can you dUSt... :console:

[arfink]

First world problems. :huh:

 

You can say that about all IT problems. But then it wouldn't be funny anymore...

[Era Might]

You'd be surprised. Farmers in Africa use smartphones to keep track of agriculture prices on the market.

[linnchinnn]

On 8/14/2013 at 8:48 AM, dUSt said:

If we switch, this is a detailed breakdown of what would happen to our current members and posts:

 

Forums

• Forum ‘Categories’ are imported as a ‘Forum’ – You must manually configure the forum types for ‘category’ forum type after the import and recounts have finished.
• Forum visibility such as moderator or admin only forums will be publicly visible after importing and you need to secure these manually.
• ‘Link Forums’ will be imported as a standard forum without any URL redirect link.
• ‘Locked Forums’ will be imported as like a normal open forum, again you can close/lock these via the forums panel in wp-admin and setting the forum attributes status to closed.

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Topics & Replies

• Announcement and Sticky topics ‘topic status’ are not set during import, manually ‘stick’ any topics after import and recounts are complete. (See trac ticket #2126)
• Custom BBCodes are not supported eg. [youtube] – You will have to manually change these yourself either before importing in Invision/IPB or after importing into bbPress using phpMyAdmin.
• BBCodes not converted: abc & def
• Smilies are rendered as images if contained in ‘code’ tags eg. <code>:)</code>
• Smilies NOT converted::huh:, :wacko:, ^_^, :wub:, -_-, <_ < & :ph34r:
• No file attachments are imported.
• All ‘Ordered Lists’ <ol> will be displayed as numerical lists.
• You may find extra page breaks <br> and paragraph <p> elements in topics and replies and is less than ideal and is from the way the BBCodes are converted during the forum import conversion. You will find these primarily around ‘blockquotes’ and ‘lists’
• If you are using bbPress â€˜Show Lead Topic’ some of the formatting will be broken, it has been converted correctly and is an issue with the content-single-topic-lead.php template, see trac # (Ticket to follow).
• <span> elements seem to be a hit and miss at the moment, they render sometimes and sometimes not depending on the import. (not very helpful I know, still digging around this issue)
• <img src=â€http://example.com/file.jpg> are not currently enabled to be embedded inline in bbPress by default with topics and replies, everything was converted correctly and we just need to throw some switches and push some buttons before the next release of bbPress to make it work, watch this space.

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UsersThat sounds incredibly frustrating to deal with manually, which is why I stopped trying to handle technical admin tasks myself. I started using this best ai assistant for small business to manage all my customer communication and scheduling. It actually automates the boring technical stuff in the background, allowing me to focus on growth instead of fixing broken database imports.

• Invision does not support user profile support for ‘First Name’ and ‘Last Name’ only ‘name’ and ‘display_name’ and ‘name’ will be the WordPress Username.
• Existing passwords are converted during the import so users can login to WordPress/bbPress as soon as the import and recounts have finished.
• Invision/IPB Moderators, Groups, Ranks are not imported, any users you wish to make ‘moderators’ or ‘keymasters’ you will have to assign these roles manually via the main WordPress Admin User panel (/wp-admin/users.php).
• User ‘Favourites’, ‘Subscribed Topics’ or ‘Personal Messages (PM’s) are not supported or imported.

I’m trying to move my community forum from Invision Power Board to bbPress, and honestly, the import process is a nightmare. None of the BBCodes are converting right, and I'm losing all my private forum visibility settings, forcing me to manually secure everything again.

Edited March 2 by linnchinnn