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yeehi:
I would really like a free software website I use to switch to SWF. Currently, their website is based on Drupal. You can have a look at it here:

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/users [nofollow]

Maybe by looking at it you will be identify which version of the Drupal forum it is running. It offers very basic functionality.

One very important feature of the forum is that it supports the mailing list. A lot of people, especially those working on development, don't use the forum web page at all, I understand.

Do you think it would be very difficult to migrate to SWF? So far the sort of response I have been getting is:

it would be a major project, not suited to a noob
it isn't broken as it is

I will say one thing for that forum as it is, though: the captcha is way easier!

Let me know what you think about getting the website to upgrade!
Have any of you had a similar situation before?

Arantor:
Define 'supports mailing list'. SMF does not out of the box support post by email but it does have facilities to notify people about posts, and there is a very old (unsupported, doesn't work on current SMF versions) package for post-by-email that might be possible to use as a base of some kind.

Porting that to SMF would be a fairly huge task since I don't believe there's a converter for it so one would need to be written.

The CAPTCHA's not a huge deal, as I said in your other thread, most times we recommend not using the CAPTCHA and writing a question specifically for the site and its content (but there are issues with multi-language sites)

The real question is what do you hope to gain by moving away from Drupal and to SMF?

yeehi:
Thanks for your reply!

That is a real downer about the support for using a mailing list to post to the forums. I will have a hard time getting that past them. I couldn't write the code myself. By "supports a mailing list" I mean that the users ought to be able to interact with a mail client instead of a webpage. I think that is what the developers at that site do.

Until you wrote, what I had in mind was this:

Set up some webhosting of my own
Get Drupal installed and running on it
Install SMF and get that going
Get the other functionality of the original website going: it has a wiki and some other things, like a box which displays donations made to the project.
Maybe add a few more tweaks to improve the website
Ask them to let me have access to the data on their website -
Somehow migrate the data to the new website -
Check that the mailing list is going and that the functionality works
Invite members of the website to check out the alternative
Hopefully they like it better!
Somehow clone the new website onto the existing one's web host

Does that sound like a good way?
Would it matter if I were using the latest version of Drupal, if they were using an older version?
Would it be a nightmare? Haha! :)

By the way, why does it say non active next to the url in my post? Is hyper-linking disabled?
Thank you for your help!

K@:
That just means that you can't click on them, I believe. (The [nonactive] thing)

Kindred:
links are disabled/non-active until 10 posts....

posting by email is so 1990s...
I actually disabled all of my old newsgroups years ago and converted them to online forums.
... and with the increase in smart phones, there's no reason they can't just go to the site and post as simply as emailing...

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