Forum² Admin AWS Posted November 28 Forum² Admin Posted November 28 I will be importing Forum² into here in the near future. I have consolidated my tech sites and now it time to bring together my admin sites. This will also bring over the skins and other resources I have at Forum². Once the import is done and the dust has settled I will upgrade the site to IPB 5. Stay tuned for more info to come. Quote IPB Webmaster - For Invision Community Enthusiasts - SEO Help Forum
Immortal Posted November 29 Posted November 29 Admin Zones is XenForo and Forum Square is Invision. How do you merge two different software? Is there some kind of importer? Why are you shifting to IPB from XF? Quote
Forum² Admin AWS Posted November 29 Author Forum² Admin Posted November 29 8 hours ago, Immortal said: Admin Zones is XenForo and Forum Square is Invision. How do you merge two different software? Is there some kind of importer? Why are you shifting to IPB from XF? Importers from most forum software packages can merge any number of forums from many different platforms into the same database. When vbulletin went downhill I switched to IPB. I would have never switch to anything else at that point. IPB was fine. I had a minor issue and in the support ticket I was told that they couldn't support me because I use Windows servers. I looked to convert back to vbulletin. It was more a mess than when I left. Slow dev times, no focus from staff. I decided, while I didn't like the main person behind xenforo, that I would switch to it. It worked well for what I wanted at the time. A forum. Now my vision is much larger and xenforo will never do what I need it to do. IPB on the other hand will. As you can see on https://forumseohelp.com/directory I was able to create the directory with Pages the CMS included with IPB. The resources section was create with the same tools. Try to do that with xenforo. In any case I have 4 sites switched, started another and am in process of merging some. Quote IPB Webmaster - For Invision Community Enthusiasts - SEO Help Forum
Immortal Posted November 30 Posted November 30 Never used any premium forum software. I have been running forums for more than 5 years and I have always used open source. For someone like me who has limited skills and limited budget, which forum software do you suggest. Quote
Forum² Admin AWS Posted November 30 Author Forum² Admin Posted November 30 I would suggest xenforo. While I prefer Invision Community it is pricey for a new license. If you can get a second hand license from someone then go with Invision. You get so much more. Even if you don't plan to use the blog or gallery it's still there for your users who might like it. Quote IPB Webmaster - For Invision Community Enthusiasts - SEO Help Forum
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