That's great!

Thank you!

Trying to make a decision here.
Currently running Classic 6.7.2 on my Barnegat Fishin' Hole Web Site.
I'm working with Threads 6.5.5 to see how I can obtain the look and feel most like what I have. The classic forums are here.
The Threads 6.5 test forum is here.
I really want to go to Threads 7.
So my question is:
What is your best advice -
Should I continue playing with 6.5.5 or should install 7(Beta) and work towards customizing that instead???
What is the easiest import route Classic to 6.5 or to 7.?

Appreciate the time an effort for you guys to look at this?
Larry

The import from classic to 7.0 will import the most data. classic to 6.5.5 will only import forums, categories, posts, users and PMs. The 7.0 importer will grab much more including polls, moderators, etc.

Since we're just about ready to release the final of 7.0 I'd probably spend your time working on 7. Any time you spend on getting 6.5.5 to look like your old site will be a bit wasted as 7.0 has a whole new style system so you'd need to do all that work over again when you switched.

Thanks Rick:
You confirmed my suspicions. I really like what I've seen in 6.5 and it looks like 7 will be easier to convert to.

Lsrry

Well, I chose to do and upgrade to 7.0 .
Totally blown out of the water.
I thought it would be an uneventful task.
But got errors the files couldn't be found. They were all in directories on the 7.0rc1.zip file that the instruction didn't cover.
After moving them over I got other errors.
So now the 6.5.5 board that I was playing with is useless.
Can't get in.
I'll delete it and load the 7.0rc01 without trying and upgrade.
Not much lost because there was only a few testing things done.
I need the practice any how. Just hope when I do the "REAL" conversion from Classic it goes smooth. I'll have a backup then!!!

7.0 Gold should be available shortly - might be worth waiting for that

OK, I loaded 7.rc01 and made some mods to. I got a good feel for what's coming in 7.0.
Now from here what's the best path for me to take:
Upgrade to 7.0 then Import from Classic or
Import thaen Upgrade??
From what Rick said in an early post, I don't think I'll lose anything that I've done in 7.0-RC1 during the upgrade.

Thanks to Kiniro for the style he made available for downloading.
Looks great.

By the way, great conversion to 7.0 amd new web site.

You'll want to upgrade to the final of version 7.0 first and then do your import. When upgrading just make sure you don't overwrite your includes, styles or your cache_builders/custom directory and you won't lose any of your changes from rc1.

Thanks much, Rick.
You've been very helpful.

Should I do a full install of version 7 including creating an admin and the database tables as well as deleting the Install files/directory before doing the import/upgrade from Threads 6.5.5?

I ask as the Version 7 Installation Guide says nothing about this.