Discusware: Enhance Your Forum Experience with Our Expert Migration Services
As the foremost experts in forum migration, we excel in the smooth transition of Discusware Boards. Our extensive experience guarantees that your complete Discusware board—comprising all posts, data, and user interactions—will be carefully transformed into the SMF format. You can be confident that no content available on your existing Discusware board will be lost.
The conversion procedure entails exporting all data into comma-separated value (CSV) files, which are ready for seamless integration with your MySQL database through phpMyAdmin. Thanks to our streamlined processes, your upgraded forum could be operational within just 24 hours.
Our impressive track record includes the successful migration of Discusware boards containing up to 1 million posts and over 100,000 topics and subtopics. We ensure that these large-scale transitions preserve functional links and attachments while keeping your original Discusware board intact.
Additionally, we support a smooth user transition by offering direct message links. This feature automatically redirects users from your previous Discusware board to the relevant topics on your new platform. Consequently, your community members will be able to engage effortlessly, without needing to search for the new forum location.
Discusware’s flat-file system has become outdated and is no longer delivering optimal user experiences. We advise moving to a database-driven format to enhance performance and usability. Our Support Board successfully transitioned from Discusware Professional 4.1 to SMF, which significantly improved our service many years ago.
To initiate the migration process, please provide us with the following:
1. A comprehensive backup of your Discus board in either zip, rar, or tar.gz format. An FTP destination will be shared with you for the upload of this file.
2. A functioning installation of either SMF, phpBB3, or MyBB on your hosting server, to which we need to be granted access.
3. Credentials to access your phpMyAdmin for the corresponding mySQL database of SMF, phpBB3, or MyBB. This is particularly crucial if your database is configured in a language other than English.
Your Discus forum can accommodate a vast array of languages, and we can seamlessly transition it to an alternate forum structure of your choice.
Please download the necessary files and save them directly to the existing Discusware installation directory. This is the same location where you will find the ‘discus’ and ‘discus_admin_nnnnnnnnn’ directories—the ‘nnn’ representing your unique installation number. Afterward, simply open your web browser and navigate to the appropriate address.
Download our Discus2SMFClient tool: Upon completion of your download, you will obtain a suite of seven text files ready for easy import into your SMF system. For detailed guidance, please refer to the instructions provided in the included ReadMe.txt file.