I moved the Freeway forums from PHPBB to this system, which isn’t Vanilla (but which I had the benefit of having written). I do have some direct experience in making that scale of a leap. In my limited experience, Vanilla is extremely well-written and a good candidate for this sort of abuse. Your chores will be almost entirely limited to SQL – translating one schema to another, and applying that translation to all of the records. (I am assuming that you want to preserve the history of the previous forum, right?)
Walter
On Oct 26, 2011, at 7:37 AM, BigG wrote:
For the last 5 years my client has used an outdated vernon of Simple Machines Forum… they have at times received loads of spam into the posts.
I want to move them to Vanilla Forums as I have heard (outside and on FWTalk) that it’s pretty elegant.
Has anyone migrated from another forum to Vanilla?