4P-Geoff
Baby Bird
Really impressed with what I've seen of XenWord so far - it seems to be miles above most WP/forum software bridges.
Right now I'm running an IPB forum and a WP site with a fairly decent-sized number of existing posts that are linked via an IPS Connect bridge (comments linked to post in forum thread, etc.). However, the bridge has been taken over by a new developer. I've started having some issues and I'm not overly impressed with the support/development progress. I don't think that we'd ever be able to upgrade to IPB 4 eventually unless a new bridge becomes available by a different developer.
In the meantime, XenForo has a lot more to offer my community in terms of resources, and XenWord is miles above the existing bridge that I use now, so I'm seriously considering converting since I own a XF license that's being unused right now anyway. My question is this - how smooth would the transition be from the current IPB bridge to XenWord in terms of users/thread linking? Would there be any issues? I'm assuming I'd have to manually go back and assign a topic to every post that already has one - tedious, but doable - but are there any other issues that might arise?
Right now I'm running an IPB forum and a WP site with a fairly decent-sized number of existing posts that are linked via an IPS Connect bridge (comments linked to post in forum thread, etc.). However, the bridge has been taken over by a new developer. I've started having some issues and I'm not overly impressed with the support/development progress. I don't think that we'd ever be able to upgrade to IPB 4 eventually unless a new bridge becomes available by a different developer.
In the meantime, XenForo has a lot more to offer my community in terms of resources, and XenWord is miles above the existing bridge that I use now, so I'm seriously considering converting since I own a XF license that's being unused right now anyway. My question is this - how smooth would the transition be from the current IPB bridge to XenWord in terms of users/thread linking? Would there be any issues? I'm assuming I'd have to manually go back and assign a topic to every post that already has one - tedious, but doable - but are there any other issues that might arise?