MSN to Vb

[Viks]

I know this will a far shot but i still wanna put this question to you.

Is it possible to import threads from MSN boards (msn groups) to vB board?

:rolleyes:

[Ianomed]

Possible: yes
Easy: no

It would involve a great deal of screen scrubbing, filtering through all of the HTML pages, extracting details and converting them for vB. Stranger things have been done though, I know people have used a similar process to move from proboards.com hosted forums.

You would also have to issue new passwords to people, as they wouldn't come across. If you have photos/documents uploaded these would either have to be made attachments to threads, or converted to an addon file/photo gallery.

Unless someone has written this already I think you'll have better luck making this a paid request, it's not something I believe many would consider something to write for fun :)

There's always the even less interesting idea of importing everything by hand, in which case posts would be owned by the copy/pasting member, or restarting and keeping the MSN group as a legacy board.

Maybe someone else has a better idea?

[Viks]

thanx for ur thots ianomed.

what i have in mind is simply archieving the threads on msn group to a vB forum.

Like called it "archieve" where the first post is a single msn thread. the users on vB can then add or discuss it further.

btw, any idea how much wud someone charge for a mod like that!!

[Ianomed]

So you do not mean for the users to be imported and posts to be attached to their username as before. In this case it could be as simple as copy/pasting each thread's content across to a new thread, not requiring any mod to be written.

As such the cost could be less depending on how many threads there are. I really can't say, it largely depends on what someone would charge for what's basically data entry type work. :)

If you're talking a very large MSN group with lots of posts and lots of members, then it may be cheaper to have a script written after all, because once written it would arguably import faster, and allow for more detail to be preserved.