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Title: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on December 31, 2014, 10:18:25 am
Hello and thanks to all Elkarte people who helped me on this community.

I finally connvert my SMF board to Elkarte. It is a board with almost 1.000 users and 30.000 messages.  The template is not finished, but I'll do it in the next days.

The addons used:
1   Fancy Box 4 ElkArte   1.0   
2   Attachment Image Resize   
3   Users online today   0.2.1   
4   Inline Attachments   1.0   
5   Google Member Map   1.0   
6   Url Favicon   0.0.1   
7   Google Analytics tracking   0.0.1   
8   SimplePortal

www.skodaclub.it
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: meetdilip on December 31, 2014, 10:53:57 am
Welcome to ElkArte SkodaClub.it ;)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on January 01, 2015, 08:22:06 am
Finally my error log on my forum is almost clean ;) I'll keep an eye on it and let you know if I have problems.

For now my users are glad with the new forum ;)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: emanuele on January 02, 2015, 04:03:59 pm
Looks great! :D
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on March 14, 2015, 11:22:42 am
After almost 3 months with Elkarte I have to say I'm glad with this conversion. The forum is fast, simple and works very well from mobile. No more tapatalk, dedicated mobile template and incompatibility problmes between mods and mobile template or Tapatalk.
I did other software conversions in the past on other forums and I always noticed some small decline of traffic in the first months. Well that was not the case with Elkarte. On smf I had the Optimus Brave mod which added to topic title the category board and name of the forum. I'am not using any similar addon for this on elkarte. My addons are:
1 Attachment Image Resize
2 Switch Permissions 1.0
3 MPAAP - Modify Posts At Anytime Permission
4 Users online today 0.2.1
5 Inline Attachments 1.0
6 Google Member Map 1.0
7
8 SimpleAds 1.0.1
9 Fancy Box 4 ElkArte 1.0
10 Url Favicon 0.0.1
11 Google Analytics tracking 0.0.1
12 SimplePortal

I converted on 30 or 31 december and here is a screenshot from G. Analytics for daily stats from september 2014 until yesterday ;)

==edit==
I only noticed a small drop of registered users, because on SMF I had registration with Facebook availble. I'm not missing that mod because most of that users are incactive. My elk stats: skodaclub.it/index.php?action=stats
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: meetdilip on March 14, 2015, 12:48:10 pm
Congrats @radu81
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: emanuele on March 14, 2015, 04:31:35 pm
Interesting results! :D
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Jorin on March 15, 2015, 01:30:00 am
Great! Well done!  :)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on March 25, 2016, 07:26:59 pm
Quote from: radu81 – It is a board with almost 1.000 users and 30.000 messages.
after 1 year and three months on elkarte my stats went to: more than 2.000 users and 100.000 posts. The forum is 4 years old, but the first two years were not positive for us
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 28, 2016, 05:58:51 am
Could you share a bit more about the conversion process itself, if you still remember? Like what issues there were, if any. I'm prepping to make the switch myself, so I'l be writing a few new add-ons for Elk. I've concluded I like the prospects better than SMF 2.1, plus I find the code base easier to comprehend.
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on March 28, 2016, 07:17:54 am
In the past I did this topic http://www.ElkArte.net/community/index.php?topic=2215.msg14355#msg14355

The main issue was the absence of a gallery, but tbh I am not missing it now. Probably is not even necessary for my niche, nobody asked for the gallery on my forum, instead a few users complained about Tapatalk that is not availble for ElkArte.

Take into consideration that I am not a developer, and even for a noob like me the conversion went fine, I did not loose anything apart the gallery. The gallery was a new addon on my smf, I had probably 200 images and most of them were inserted manually as attachments into smf before the migration

Another issue I remember was the Thank-o-matic mod on smf, but the importer converts the "thank you" data into likes
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 28, 2016, 08:37:06 am
Cool, thanks! Sounds about like what I was hoping for. I have users who are quite attached to features like first post on every page and bookmarks, so conversion will be somewhat involved. But probably not more so than moving to SMF 2.1.
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on March 28, 2016, 08:52:03 am
you're welcome ;)

For first post on every page I am afraid there is nothing similar to ElkArte, but for bookmarks we have this addon (I didn't use it or test it)
http://addons.ElkArte.net/feature/Bookmarks.html
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 28, 2016, 08:57:15 am
I've seen, but I'll have to migrate the data. ;) First post on every page is one of the things I'll look into writing myself.
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: emanuele on March 28, 2016, 09:50:47 am
Oddly enough I have an addon here on my localhost named "Pin First Message", but I can't find it published anywhere...
Looking at the code it seems fine and it should work... LOL And that's the second time I forgot about it! xD
http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=2144.msg16650#msg16650
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 28, 2016, 09:57:56 am
lol, remind me to prod you for some other things
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Spuds on March 28, 2016, 07:44:22 pm
And there is the bookmarks addon as well  :D  ... http://addons.elkarte.net/feature/Bookmarks.html 
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 29, 2016, 03:55:52 am
Give me an SQL conversion query and we're talking. ;)

Kidding, kidding. :P
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: emanuele on March 29, 2016, 03:59:37 am
LOL
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on March 29, 2016, 05:36:23 am
for bookmarks you can import existing data http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=1811.0
or at least the dev says it's possible :)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Frenzie on March 29, 2016, 08:26:08 am
Well sure, there should be basically the same info there (most important, the id of the bookmarked topic). Anyway, so they share the same DB structure; that makes things easier. That would've come to light pretty quickly once I actually investigated it. :P
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Fenderen on October 21, 2016, 06:03:19 am
Looks great!
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on October 21, 2016, 05:24:08 pm
thank you ;)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on May 21, 2017, 05:32:09 pm
10.000 attachments!
I just reached 10.567 attachments on my forum, and guess what? with all the addons related to images the total size of my attachments is only 1,5 GB (1.563.706,14 KB) . Not bad and I am satisfied how attachment system works in elkarte compared to SMF. Next step is to upgrade to 1.1 where I can finally put inline attachments without writing bbcode.

Other stats: we also reached 150.00 posts and + 3.000 members. 
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on April 19, 2018, 09:25:18 pm
And finally updated to 1.1.3 8)

https://www.skodaclub.it/
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Spuds on April 20, 2018, 09:35:37 am
is the logo new ?  looks nice  :)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on April 20, 2018, 09:39:12 am
Thank you! I updated the logo a few months ago
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Jorin on April 21, 2018, 02:30:30 am
Nice logo indeed! Good job!  :)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on September 07, 2018, 07:37:03 am
Just some updates from my forum: we're hitting almost 200.000 messages :)


Add-ons installed:

Add-ons removed after 1.0 to 1.1 conversion:

And the "invisible" part that cannot be measured in numbers is that we are making gatherings (or meetings, I'm not sure how to call it) and we have created friendships. We meet 1-2 times /year and we are also making local meetings just for a simple dinner or a pizza toghether. Me and other 20-30 persons were present at the wedding of our moderator. There is a nice "atmosphere" inside our forum ;)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Jorin on September 12, 2018, 01:06:13 pm
Sounds like a really great community!  :)
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: radu81 on September 12, 2018, 01:20:41 pm
Thanks Jorin ;) 
Title: Re: Skoda Club Italia
Post by: Walletform on September 24, 2018, 01:43:04 am
Nice logo! :)