First question: why would you move the old large forum? Is there a need for it?
Answering your question: there's no advanced nor paid version of uForum. If you still wish to import all data, only import members as umbraco data and keep all other data (posts, forum, categories) in non-umbraco tables. No need to move data around then, and just need to write some user controls/xslt to fetch data from the database. Member import can be done using Richard's excellent umbImport tool (such large amount of member data is no issue to umbraco, not sure if the free version of umbImport supports this large amount of data tho)
Is There Advanced?
I see the project says
This is the basic version of the uForumSo is there an advanced version available? Free or paid?
Also do you think the basic version is suitable for moving a large forum too? Currently its powered by Web Wiz Forum (Classic ASP) and has
250,704 Posts in 29,282 Topics in 40 Forum(s) and 5,951 Forum Members
Would I be able to import all the posts, members etc.. and would it still be manageable?
First question: why would you move the old large forum? Is there a need for it?
Answering your question: there's no advanced nor paid version of uForum. If you still wish to import all data, only import members as umbraco data and keep all other data (posts, forum, categories) in non-umbraco tables. No need to move data around then, and just need to write some user controls/xslt to fetch data from the database. Member import can be done using Richard's excellent umbImport tool (such large amount of member data is no issue to umbraco, not sure if the free version of umbImport supports this large amount of data tho)
Hope this helps,
Regards.
/Dirk
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