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Is it possible to import another forum into a simple-press forum?

KV kvr28
kvr28
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there is a big uproar in the homesteading community right now, one of the biggest forums had been acquired by carbon media group which owns a large amount of forums and they screwed up big time, you can read about it here

http://www.managingcommunities.com/2015/03/26/problem-with-post-edit-buttonomesteading-today-and-how-to-quickly-turn-your-community-against-you/

several of the mods were so pissed they decided to start their own forum with pro-boards and quite a few of the members have followed, I think they might be biting off more than they anticipated and was thinking of offering to combine our two forums.

Would it be possible to import a relatively new proboard forum into our existing one? Just want clarification before I shoot them a message.

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

pro boards?  not sure what that is, but that forum you linked to actually looks like vbulletin…  our importer does indeed do vbulletin, though a bit of limitation to what can be brought over…

there is a service which does a complete transfer:  http://gconverters.com/

we are not affiliated with them in any way, but users have reported good success with them…

KV kvr28
kvr28
Member

 yes, the carbon media forum is a v-bulletin, the offshoot is a pro-board forum, it’s a free forum system that adds advertisement onto the forums to generate income. of course you can pay to disable the ads and such

http://support.proboards.com/

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

hmmm… never heard of it..  and frankly, never seen it before either…  afraid our importer wont work on it…  and looks like gconverter hasnt heard of it either…  lol, thought they knew em all! 😆

so a bit problematic…

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

I would think it is worth asking gConverters. They DO deal with vBulletin I believe.

The tricky part is the combining of the two forums but it would not surprise me of they could handle that. They seem geared up for this sort of task.