Starting with Elkarte then xenForo
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 –
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 #5 –
@tino
Thanks! 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 –
One day I'll have OpenImporter work as expected. xD