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By rusloc on
One of my old forums was essentially my blog because most of the topics and posts were my own ( http://www.zima.net/forums/index.php )
Looking at the statistics, I see that it's pretty popular - up to a thousand visits per day. I would like to retain and improve that statistics after converting the website to Drupal.
What is the best plan of action? Converting the IPB database to Drupal core forum / Michelle's AF? Finding a DB expert and paying for the conversion?
I searched Drupal.org for several days and found no solutions for my version of the IPB - 3.02. Besides, the only 'solution' I did find, involved converting IPB 2.3.6 to phpBB v3.0.4, and then converting that to Drupal. Why not directly from IPB to Drupal?
I also understand that the main stumbling block in forum's database migration is the user profile tables with their passwords, etc.
Frankly, I don't care about migrating old forum users to Drupal. All I need is the content of the forum, which apparently is interesting to many people. Since good content is best for SEO, I'd like to 'recycle' and explore it as much as possible.
Thank you for any and all leads to a solution of my problem.
