There are a few changes to the original permalink import:
- adds permalinks for posts
- does not create incorrect permalinks for private messages
- adds permalink normalizations for topics and posts
- Extensive refactoring of the existing importer
- Configuration of import with settings.yml instead of editing code
- Supports importing from phpBB 3.0.x and 3.1.x
- Imports all attachments (not just the ones embedded with [attachment])
from posts and private messages
- Imports all existing attachments without the need to configure allowed
file extensions or file sizes
- Imports polls
- Imports bookmarks
- Imports sticky topics and (global) announcements as pinned topics
- Imports categories in the original order and sets the content of the
category description topic
- Sets the creation date of category description topics to the creation
date of the first topic in each category
- Imports additional user attributes: last seen date, registration
IP address, website, date of birth, location
- Optionally set the user's name to its username
- Users that didn't activate their account in phpBB3 are imported as
inactive users
- All imported, active users are automatically approved
- Users that were deactivated in phpBB3 get suspended for 200 years
during the import
- Anonymous user can be imported as suspended users instead of the
system user
- Forums of type "link" are not imported as categories anymore
- Internal links to posts get rewritten during the import (previously
only links to topics got rewritten)
- Ordered lists with BBCode [list=a] (which are unsupported in
Discourse) get imported as if they would be [list=1]
- Importing of avatars, attachments, private messages, polls and
bookmarks can be disabled via configuration file
- Optional fixing of private messages for forums that have been upgraded
from phpBB2 prevents the import of duplicate messages and tries to
group related messages into topics
- Table prefix (default: phpbb) is configurable
- Most of phpBB's default smilies are mapped to Emojis and all other
smilies get uploaded and embedded as images. Smiley mappings can be
added or overridden in the settings.yml file.
