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So I recently migrated to IPS from XenForo and it went quite smooth.
For those considering moving to IPS 4.2.x from XenForo 1.5.x, I thought I would make a list of potential issues. For some of you these would be a non-issue, for some it would be a compromise and for others they may be showstoppers.
This is course subject to change as IPS adjusts their XenForo to IPS converter in future.
For those considering moving to IPS 4.2.x from XenForo 1.5.x, I thought I would make a list of potential issues. For some of you these would be a non-issue, for some it would be a compromise and for others they may be showstoppers.
- XenForo post ratings add-on (By Luke F) are not converted to IPS Reactions: this is of course expected as Post Ratings is a 3rd party add-on. This can be worked around by manually inserting the entries into your database after the conversion, and recounting IPS reaction points then rebuilding the Leaderboard. Details in this thread.
- Edit history is not converted: the date/time stamps are preserved, but the name of the member isn't (will just say Guest). You will also lose your previous edit content history. After you convert you will need to re-enable this feature as the full edit history is disabled by default. I should also add that XenForo's Logging Options by default prunes edit history after 60 days.
- IP address history is not converted: similarly, IP address history for members is not converted. They will all list as 127.0.0.1 until the member logs in again after the conversion. I should also add that XenForo's Logging Options by default auto-prune IP address history after 365 days.
- Double lines in posts: XenForo uses line breaks when ENTER is inputted in posts. In IPS, they use <p> paragraph breaks. This results in a blank <p> paragaph if there is a double line break in a post after the conversion.
- No BBCode editor: IPS does not have a BB Code editor, only the Visual Editor. Some BBCodes are still recognised (including spoiler) but you can't switch to plain text BBCode.
- Profiles can't be set as private: in XenForo a member can set their profile so it isn't publicly visible except to followers. In IPS no such concept exists.
- IP.Gallery has a 100 image upload cap per session: not a huge issue as this can be overcome with a simple core file edit.
- IP.Gallery can't embed videos: not a huge issue as I'm using a different add-on for this, and using IP.Gallery solely for images. If you converted from Xenforo Media Gallery it will just import the thumbnail as an image, and embed the video into the video description. You can however upload video files directly but no processing will be done to it (unlike XenForo's FFmpeg's implementation of encoding it for HTML 5 compatibility)
- IPS's Customize Friendly URLs not fully working: in XenForo you can use the Route Filter option to rename/adjust URL slugs, as long as it didn't create ambiguity. Very useful for renaming add-on URL slugs (Gallery and Showcase comes to mind) In IPS you can do similar but for some reason you can't rename the parent application slug. If you try to rename it, it just prepends the original name of the parent slug to your customisation. Have a ticket open for this but I suspect it's a deliberate limitation based on community feedback so far..
This is course subject to change as IPS adjusts their XenForo to IPS converter in future.
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