Would boards.ie consider another platform migration?

17-03-2022 06:02PM #1

Initially with vBulletin as I understand?

Went with Vanilla (due to financial constraints?).

XenForo seems to me to be BY FAR the most advanced and innovative of the commonly used forum platforms.

I ask only cause obviously the difficulty in negotiating the site since migration, and the web traffic on certain subs has gone from bad to non-existent.

XenForo is so damn easy to negotiate and it's feature are so user friendly.

......

Ees posible.... ?

17-03-2022 08:52PM

Zero chance (IMO). At least not without a substantial investment. As you note, the migration to Vanilla was largely motivated by a desire to reduce costs. A (successful) migration requires a substantial increase in costs

The problems with the migration do not (mostly) stem from the choice of platform. It was absolutely possible to have a successful migration to Vanilla. It was absolutely possible to have a successful migration to Xenforo. But if Xenforo had been chosen initially, and the same time, processes, and resources had been assigned to that migration, the result would have been the same. The exact specifics might have differed, but the ultimate outcome would have been the same - many technical issues, an unhappy userbase, and substantial loss of traffic.

17-03-2022 10:01PM

How do you figure?

Logistics of this Vanilla platform lives up to its name.

Unless you had familiarity with the site from previous it's impossible to find anything.

Not to mention posting features, user titles etc.

Xenforo is so far ahead of both vBulletin and Vanilla on all those counts.

Users love a platform which is friendly to interact with, easy to use, personable; vanilla is unfortunately none of those things.

I attribute reduced user stats primarily to that flaw.

17-03-2022 10:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118799423#Comment_118799423

How long do you think a migration of a forum the size of Boards takes? Involving how many people with what skill sets? And more importantly, what salary would they require?

Pelvis Parsley · 18-03-2022 04:46PM

People's Republic of Cork did just that-with one admin and no fuss.

And it went like clockwork.

18-03-2022 05:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118799544#Comment_118799544

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Anyone?

Could we work up an estimate?

Deja Boo · 18-03-2022 05:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058237781/would-boards-ie-consider-another-platform-migration

If they don't do something else, other than adding more advertising, Boards.vanilla will not end well. Best forum on the net being reduced to a Photobucket-like advert-overwhelmed rubbish site --- self destruction sequence complete. :/

@Sugar_Rush, I seriously doubt Vanilla was an inexpensive option - Boards probably paid heavily in funds (not to mention membership) to "rid themselves of the financial burden." :/ ...I mean within the first month, did not VanillAmeriCanada parlay their new, huge Boards account into a business acquisition of their own?... sadly, at the expense of the Boards.ie community... :(

23-04-2022 07:45PM

For real.

What would be the cost of a subsequent transition to Xenforo?

Maybe we could do a "go fund me"?

Would boards.ie consider another platform migration?

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