Starting with Elkarte then xenForo December 19, 2018, 04:17:25 am Hello,I want to build a membership site and I already decied that I will use a forum software for that. Later I will probably invest in a paid forum software, probably xenforo.But tbh, free alternatives s*ck mostly. The only free alternative I would consider is Elkarte. This is the only free forum software that is actually seem almost perfect. So probably people have told you a thousand times, great job!My question is that if I want to convert to xenforo after some time, is it possible? xF has a converter for SMF. Will it work with Elkarte?I know I should ask the xF team but they probably don't know the answer. So is Elkarte similar to SMF in structure? If so, it can be probably converted to xf later.Btw, I am not sure at all whether I want to convert to xf or not. The membership site I am about to launch is planned to be a long project. So I don't want to get stuck if I want to move to xf at some point.
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #1 – December 19, 2018, 05:27:03 am Welcome to Elkarte!I use both elkarte & XF, and both are nice software. Like you said you need to ask on XF forums, I know for sure that someone was able to migrate to XF, there is a discussion on XF forums and IIRC there are also posted some edits to make to xf convertor.
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #2 – December 19, 2018, 07:41:54 am To me it seems that itt will be expensive for me in the long run. There is no public importer.https://xenforo.com/community/threads/elkarte-to-xenforo.128359/I hate to invest in things before I really know I need it. But since I don't know my audience's wants and needs in advance yet, I probably have to invest in xf.
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #3 – December 19, 2018, 09:12:52 am Quote from: G a r y – December 19, 2018, 07:41:54 amTo me it seems that itt will be expensive for me in the long run. There is no public importer.https://xenforo.com/community/threads/elkarte-to-xenforo.128359/I hate to invest in things before I really know I need it. But since I don't know my audience's wants and needs in advance yet, I probably have to invest in xf. If these is a SMF 2.1 importer then porting it across wouldn't be to difficult. Elkarte and SMF 2.1 database wise are fairly similar.
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #4 – December 19, 2018, 09:15:47 am Also this suggests it's ok. https://theadminzone.com/threads/anyone-converted-elkarte-to-ipb-xenforo-wbb.148313/
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #5 – December 19, 2018, 10:31:46 am @tinoThanks! So it looks like it is possible, just a bit complicated (first converting to MyBB then xF).It seems that I can go with Elkarte.
Re: Starting with Elkarte then xenForo Reply #6 – December 19, 2018, 06:14:23 pm One day I'll have OpenImporter work as expected. xD