Nitro Porter, the only multi-community migration tool

linc

gozen My email is in the OP. I'm afraid I don't have any other contact info for you besides this discussion.

Yuma

i have read and answer i drop files in end of week

gozen

linc hi, you can contact me ----just saw your form, filling up now

Yuma

linc I have test nitro porter i have send error in email i try to migrate myself for test

Yuma

linc i have send error with nitro porter with my test in email i think is difference of structure ipb 3 and ipb 4

Yuma

linc i have send dumpsql

Yuma

i don't have new ? 🙂

linc

Yesterday I released Nitro Porter 3.2 which fixes & improves the CLI, as well as fixing a bug where the "PdoDB" class couldn't be found in some setups.

I also realized I wasn't getting notifications for discussions on that repo, which I've now fixed.

I currently have data for 4 pending migrations, and am awaiting data for 3 others. Going a bit slower than I'd hoped, but still moving things forward whenever I have time.

schwabing

linc what a great initiative!
We have a rather large forum, custom built, but straightforward with only very few features. 3GB of SQL, roughly 6 million posts (not threads), 700-800 concurrent users online during evening hours, 1 million monthly sessions. I would love to move it to flarum.
As I read you're pretty busy right now... Is there maybe someone you can recommend for a paid migration?
If not what would be the best approach? Learn how Nitro Porter works from the other sources and write one for our case?
https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter/blob/089091256f56778dabdc46d7b3fbe52b39320a16/src/Source/Xenforo.php

poVoq

linc Is there a guide for adding additional export targets? I think Lemmy might be really interesting for that.

luceos

schwabing there are some partners listed here that can help with a migration: https://flarum.org/partners, in addition you can post under services to get potential contractors to respond to your request.

Yuma

linc it's not easy for my database ipb4 i have see it's great job to convert all correctly for flarum : )

linc

schwabing Is there maybe someone you can recommend for a paid migration?

Yup, @luceos has you covered. I do think you could use the existing src/Source/* packages as a model and probably move a basic set of discussions, posts, users, and categories over fairly quickly if you have a PHP engineer handy. It's all the other stuff that usually gets more complicated. Unfortuantely I'm not able to assist with custom / bespoke forums, there's just too damn many even limiting it to the distributed ones. 😅

linc

poVoq There is! Happy to get feedback & questions. It's very basic right now. Hard to see what folks want to know first when you've been the only one coding on it for so long. 😁

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seangalla

How about from a Mighty Networks community? 🙂 If so, I'm keen. https://mensgroup.com

linc

seangalla How about from a Mighty Networks community?

I don't know much about it. Can you get a database export from them, or is it API-only?

Yuma

do you have convert ipb 4 for flarum?

luceos

Yuma looks like it: https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter/blob/main/src/Source/IpBoard4.php

linc

Yuma I added preliminary support in Feb but haven't put it in the latest release, yet. It only does the basics so far.

MoshBit

@linc I tried this script today and probably did something wrong because I all I got was a blank screen.

Linode VPS, CentOS v7
nginx 1.23.3
php 8.1.7
MariaDB 10.38
Xenforo 2.2.12

to be honest, I don't know what my PDO Driver is. also I'm willing to donate my database to the tests if you need it, if so, let me know if i should fill out that form?

id love to get my xenforo community ported over to flarum!