Migration from phpBB script

[lemmynet]

Migration from phpBB script

[Nutomic]

Would an import script have to deal with the potential to flood federated instances with "new" posts, or is that solved already? That's one of the arguments Gargron makes for not allowing post migration on Mastodon.

You could disable federation first, do the data import and then enable federation. Anyway there is nothing technical that would prevent you from importing data, you just use the normal api.

[dessalines]

Someone wrote a Reddit -> Lemmy database import script, you might be able to use some of the techniques there, if you know how the phpBB database is set up.

[mattbk]

Although I don't entirely agree that

individual forum websites is outdated tech

this idea is rad (and should be expanded to SMF).

Would an import script have to deal with the potential to flood federated instances with "new" posts, or is that solved already? That's one of the arguments Gargron makes for not allowing post migration on Mastodon.

Also, I love the lemmyBB idea and hope to use it or another variation one day. It solves my problem of wanting to replicate forum functionality without the focus on upvotes. ❤️

[Nutomic]

There is a tool Nitro Porter which allows data migrations from a lot of different forum platforms. It doesnt currently support Lemmy, but that could probably be added.