Cleaning up boards - fresh install - keeping users
 

I run www.diablo3.com, its had a rough life, very bad coding on the layout, its been chopped up many times. We lost everything when we first started and backed up and merged 2 boards.

The fear is this, that game gets announced it will be one of the largest gaming fansites on the internet, so I would like to start fresh. MY question is this..

The board has some plugins, and has vbadvanced. I want to start with a fresh install of vbulliton, and I want to important all my users, all my threads, all my forums. What I do not want to keep is any of the old design, any of the old vbadvanced.

I just want a fresh clean install with all my threads, forums and 30 thousand posts and 4300 members. So I can then install a brand new theme/style and vbadvanced.

Just do a fresh install with new database and use the importer supplied at vbulletin.com to import all your data. At least that is what I would think you would need to do.

Warning:
Install the new forums in a seperate directory and once it is up and functioning then delete the old version.

There's an importer? I'll have to check that out...we have the same issue.

in the downloads section where you download vb. You must login.