<![CDATA[nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading?]]>Hi,

I'm exploring the possibility of converting our 100,000+ post forum from phpBB 3.3.15 to nodeBB.

I previously converted the forum from another system (WebWiz IIRC) about 9 years ago and that was a big job so I was interested to see that NodeBB has a plugin that might handle a lot of the conversion for me.

However, I note from the GitHub Repository Readme for this plugin that it only supports NodeBB version 1.12.1 which is now quite a long way behind. Also, AFAICT the phpBB Exporter may not be up with the latest phpBB version.

What would be involved in upgrading nodebb-plugin-import to support nodeBB 4.x?

]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/88bffac3-0afe-497a-b4ee-638232a1b3f1/nodebb-plugin-import-upgradingRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 17:09:30 GMTSat, 29 Aug 2026 17:14:07 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading? on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:08:20 GMT]]>@rob-hills yes, the mention will notify him <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://community.nodebb.org/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=0decc882adb" title="😄" />

He runs https://nitroporter.org/

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107988https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107988Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:08:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading? on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:04:46 GMT]]>> @julian said:
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> @rob-hills I'd ask @linc@phpc.social — he's been working on a NodeBB importer and this is right up his alley.

Thanks, @julian , will @linc@phpc.social be alerted by your reference to him? I'm new so I still don't know how this all works.

I'm a bit wary of harassing anyone with direct contact so soon after joining up!

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107987https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107987Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:04:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading? on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:32:04 GMT]]>@rob-hills I'd ask @linc@phpc.social — he's been working on a NodeBB importer and this is right up his alley.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107986https://citiverse.it/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107986Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:32:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to nodebb-plugin-import - upgrading? on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:10:26 GMT]]>Hey @rob-hills

Looked at something similar a few years back migrating a large MyBB community across to NodeBB - I ended up placing it in the "too hard" basket ........... Unfortunately it looks like someone developed that importer a long time ago, and it didn't keep up with future updates.

Because it only worked with that specific NodeBB version (1.12.1) then you could upgrade it after-the-fact, I struggled to build a compatible environment to get a working 1.12.1 install.

You'd probably have to do a bit of work to get this going - and I say that as someone who's built the odd forum-to-forum migration converter tool in the past!

Shame there's no "Official" importer like some other forum softwares have.

I may potentially have some notes somewhere documenting my findings on this when I last tried. I'll try and have a look for them and would be happy to share - they may be of use, they may not! (and knowing my record for keeping notes, some of it probably won't even make sense to me when I go back and re-read it!)

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