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Can somebody point me in the right direction? (Moving from Proboards)

Started by ShadowsOfSilver, November 09, 2010, 10:07:38 PM

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ShadowsOfSilver

I have 2 SMF sites. One was made from scratch,a nd the other I'm using to convert my Proboards forum to SMF.

However - I need a program that can move a Proboards 4.5 site to SMF 2.0 RC4. Can somebody please help?

Thanks.

EDIT:

If it helps, this is the forum I am converting: ht tp://coldchaosrevived.proboards.com/

And this is the SMF forum: ht tp://coldchaos.net23.net/index.php

Remove the spaces.

Oldiesmann

Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's much you can do, as ProBoards specifically prohibits using scripts to harvest the data from their forums:

http://www.proboards.com/tos

Quote19. PROHIBITED USES

ProBoards imposes certain restrictions on Your use of the Website and the Services. You represent and warrant that you will not: ... (g) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, or intelligent agents) to harvest or otherwise collect information from the Website for any use, including without limitation use on third-party websites;

We had one here a few years ago, but it got removed because ProBoards said it was too hard on their servers. Now it's completely against their Terms of Service, so if you even attempt to use a converter and they find out, they can shut down your forum.

ShadowsOfSilver

Quote from: Oldiesmann on November 15, 2010, 11:57:22 PM
Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's much you can do, as ProBoards specifically prohibits using scripts to harvest the data from their forums:

hxxp:www.proboards.com/tos [nonactive]

Quote19. PROHIBITED USES

ProBoards imposes certain restrictions on Your use of the Website and the Services. You represent and warrant that you will not: ... (g) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, or intelligent agents) to harvest or otherwise collect information from the Website for any use, including without limitation use on third-party websites;

We had one here a few years ago, but it got removed because ProBoards said it was too hard on their servers. Now it's completely against their Terms of Service, so if you even attempt to use a converter and they find out, they can shut down your forum.

Yeah, I know that. I'm perfectly fine with that, I know a site that moved earlier this year to SMF.

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