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Ten years of troubleshooting threads. Someone's step-by-step guide to fixing a printer that only jams on Tuesdays. A moderator's sticky about board et...
You just finished the migration. The new forum software is installed, the old database is exported, and you click 'import.' The screen flickers. Then—...
You've kept that old forum alive for years. Maybe it's a phpBB 2.0 board from 2005, still running on PHP 5.3. Maybe it's an ancient Invision Power Boa...
You've been putting it off for months. The legacy forum software—vBulletin 3.8, phpBB 2, maybe even something older like XMB—still chugs along, but ev...
Every legacy forum migraal starts with a ghostly decision: which thread deserve to breathe again, and which should stay buried in the database graveya...
Forum migrations are rarely just technical projects. They are emotional events. Members have spent years building identities, collecting reputation ba...
Every migration starts with a gut check. You stare at the old forum software—vBulletin 3.8, maybe phpBB 2.0—and wonder how it has run this long withou...