I have over two thousand users. I basically told everyone that if they wanted to keep their present status, they had to email me with their post number. Since only a few really cared (the high posters), it didn't take that long to set their levels.
You have to remember how Discus is set up, compared to VB. They're two different animals. Getting one into the other is not going to be easy. Someone did it on this forum, I had contacted them and discussed it, and they basically said that after writing some sort of script to do it, they had spent more than a week full time finessing the data so that it could be imported into VB. UNLESS someone more recently has been more successful creating an import script, personally, I wouldn't waste my time. The re-registration process was easy, people had fun creating new avatars and learning the new board, no one misses Discus (in my opinion, a good board, but far inferior to VB), and the top posters who cared, kept their levels. People still search the old Discus forum as an archive. It has worked very well for me.
Hope you find what you're looking for. But I discovered that this time and energy was better put towards other things.
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