One Month After Switching From vBulletin To XenForo...

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  1. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #61
    Based on what we did, I'll give you one guess on what my opinion is. lol
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 8, 2014 IP
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    #62
    May i ask what version of xf are you using?
     
    datoneer, Jan 9, 2014 IP
  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #63
    The latest version.
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 9, 2014 IP
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    datoneer Active Member

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    #64
    Thanks, well i've purchased xenforo today and successfully imported all vb data. And WOW forum is much faster and it looks cool!
     
    datoneer, Jan 9, 2014 IP
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    CypherHackz Well-Known Member

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    #65
    I would suggest you to move to XenForo. I have make the move and really happy with XF. More fast, and less resource use.

    -cypher.
     
    CypherHackz, Jan 16, 2014 IP
  6. Hemant Aggarwal

    Hemant Aggarwal Greenhorn

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    #66
    Where did you get all those stats from. Is there some plugin for XenForo that displays some better stats then the stock tool.
     
    Hemant Aggarwal, Jan 16, 2014 IP
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    #67
    One thing that is stopping us from making the move is the blogging system that is built into Vbulletin, did you find any solution for this ?
     
    Canada Web Design, Jan 19, 2014 IP
  8. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #68
    Didn't need to since we don't use blogs...
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 19, 2014 IP
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    Canada Web Design Active Member

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    #69
    I think I found a good solution that xenforo has to offer, now just to track down vbseo to xenforo conversion. So glad to get rid of this POS lol.
     
    Canada Web Design, Jan 20, 2014 IP
  10. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #70
    Yeah... it's pretty painful for me when I have to get back in vBulletin sites now. Especially if they are running 5.x. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 20, 2014 IP
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  12. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #72
    That one is BASED on the one I built... they just made it more universal (I didn't bother to do anything that was outside the scope of what I needed it for [migrating just this site]).

    So yeah... that one IS the one I made, but with some stuff added to make it easier to use.
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 20, 2014 IP
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    #73
    From the code it looks like you designed it to keep all the ID's (threads/posts/attachments) the same as vbulletin for url redirection ?
     
    Canada Web Design, Jan 20, 2014 IP
  14. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #74
    Yes... all table keys remain the same.
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 20, 2014 IP
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    #75
    I hope to see the same on my forum. 20 days after the conversion uniques went slightly up. We had no drop in traffic so far.
    I think everything is gonna stay the same. But of course i hope for more. :p
    I also noticed the speed increase and decrease of the used resources. :) That's cool!
     
    Fred., Jan 26, 2014 IP
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    dayvo Active Member

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    #76
    @digitalpoint - Out of interest why did you move from VB ?
     
    dayvo, Jan 30, 2014 IP
  17. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #77
    It's just become worse and worse software over the last 4 or so years.
     
    digitalpoint, Jan 30, 2014 IP
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    #78
    Lol, exactly what i think. I'm glad I did the switch to XenForo. I really love it more and more :D
     
    Fred., Jan 30, 2014 IP
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    Boilerplater Peon

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    #79
    Sorry if I still didn't get it ;-)
    Does anybody know, if you can (with the help of available scripts, etc.) import a whole vBulletin 3.8.x based (big) forum into XenForo and then keep all vbSEO URLs?
    That would be fantastic! My boss won't like it to redirect all these thread URLs which are already indexed by google since many years. We fear that we may fall down the index when doing redirects.

    Thx in advance!
     
    Boilerplater, Feb 5, 2014 IP
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    #80
    No Problem. :)

    Check this. ;)

    http://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.5030/
    http://xenforo.com/help/import-redirection/
    http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/
     
    Fred., Feb 6, 2014 IP
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