I have succesfully converted from SMF to Fireboard using a commercial converter, the only thing that did not work is that my users are stuck in Fireboard and never got transferred to Joomla - thus they cannot authenticate using Joomla. Hwo can i move them over to the Joomla side as well? Thanks

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I don't think they will try to help you with this . Did you at least keep a copy of your old smf and joomla DB? If yes you can use that to restore your users. The problem with that service you used and I used it as well in the case for trying out fireboard is that I didn't want it to touch my users or their information. Using mtwmigrator I used that to port my users from joomla 1.0.15 to joomla 1.5.3 and it worked great. Sync fireboard and you should be good to go.

My last bit of advice is this. If you are running Joomla 1.5.3 or any 1.5 series stay away from fireboard for awhile till they get things in gear. Joomla 1x fine use it but if you go 1.5 you were warned. The developers here seem reluctant to add any type of support for the 1.5 series from my reading and the legacy support is ineffective. Joomla 1.6 is going to do away with legacy and guess what? If you aren't with the boat when it leaves then I guess you are stranded huh?

Personally the only reason to use fireboard is to not modify any files with your joomla install. There are just too many tried and true forums out there and once the devs here actually get everything to work it will make a good vanilla forum choice for any joomla site. If and a big if at that the joomla team with phpbb decide to release some type of integration support well that's it. It will probably happen since joomla would be a very very attractive choice for almost any type of site at that point.

I would not convert it from SMF to Fireboard. SMF is a very good app comparing to Fireboard. You are going to have lots pf problems with Fireboard. I have tried Fireboard and nothing problems after problems. So I switched to phpbb. Oh well. These guys are busy with school, work, you won't get a help here. It might take weeks, months...from my own experience.

Yes. If Joomla team builds and integration so we can easily integrate phpbb easily that would be awesome! Instead of being stuck on Fireboard. There is an extension that bridges phpbb but it is in alpha for test only. Other than that there is no choice in my opinion.

By the way make a joomla test site and install the Fireboard and try it out you will see what I mean.