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Under Consideration: Migrate the Forums to Discourse
Dear All,
After being active on the Node-RED forum for the last few weeks, I have been very impressed with Discourse, and my eyes have been opened.
Code:
https://www.discourse.org/
but not the paid /hosted offering, but using the open distribution:
Code:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Soon, I will build everything (in a test bed) and attempt to port our core database over to discourse (for testing only).
I am also considering paying around $1000 to $1500 to have a professional who has done this before do the migration; but I need to try it myself first to see if it is better for me to do it myself, or pay to have it done.
I think, seriously, it is time to 'retire' the legacy vBulletin code base and "move on"....
In the past i participated sometimes at Monitoring Portal . They changed to discourse 1-2 years ago. The usability seems fine for me. Since discourse is based on ruby on rails(RoR), the resource requirements are higher than the php based vbulletin. I had never run discourse on my own so far. I just had a quick look when searching for a forum solution, and discarded it, because it would have required a newer stronger machine. (Statement of a former programmer-colleague on ruby on rails: "i do not care about memory - developer time is far more costly.").
I had a glance at nodebb, which was very quick in terms of response times. I liked that very much. Home | XCP-ng forum is based on NodeBB. NodeBB is based on Node.js.
phpBB has gotten another major rewrite with version 3.3. I used it as an internal communication board(version 3.2). The administration felt very awful back then. then Since it's fully OSS maybe they constantly improve over time?
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I like discourse, that is why I decided to go with it (testing, migration testing, etc). No verdict on production, since porting the DB over is fraught with dragons and goblins....
In addition, had a chat with the mods, and both Akshay and Ravinder are on board.
Ravinder loves the features as well how discourse runs on mobile (very important).
Akshay likes as well.
Currently, we are working on building test bed using Docker on a VPS.
Regarding performance, I have been on the Node-RED forum a lot lately (maybe good much), which is discourse, and is it blazing fast.
I think one of the main reasons I like the Node-RED forum, besides a robust Node-RED community, is the fact that discourse is so good and fun to use.
There has not been another forum which has brought be to this "retire old vBulletin" except discourse.
Of course, we can customize discourse as well.... which we will do for sure! That is a given... custom code.
Just upgraded the test bed slice from 2GB to 8GB and increase RAM and quadrupled the CPU power and disk space (was getting tight)..... Hopefully it will chug along every faster.
Code:
8 GB 4 Cores 160 GB SSD 5 TB 40 Gbps 5000 Mbps
This server is only for migration and test purposes.
Let's see how it progresses......
IF (and that is a BIG IF at this time) and the migration goes well, will consider the next steps, for example, where to host the docker image, etc. But I don't want to get ahead of the tips of my skis since we have no idea how the migration will go.
I may also consider porting over the legacy user avatars.... not sure about this yet.
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Work around for:
Code:
importing children categories...
Traceback (most recent call last):
5: from script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb:942:in `<main>'
4: from /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb:47:in `perform'
3: from script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb:84:in `execute'
2: from script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb:287:in `import_categories'
1: from script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb:287:in `each'
script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb:289:in `block in import_categories': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
Workaround (temporary?); Commented out this "buggy section" with :
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