Ruben got my forum moved over. Two additional things I did that resolved outstanding issues:
I reassigned any topics with a forum of 0 to have a forum of 1 - recovered them very quickly (Ruben noted this; the ideal is as he said to fix it before the transfer).
Then I used MySQL to switch every old post from markup to html, and rebuilt posts. This fixed all other outstanding issues from the conversion. (Well, except for <t> showing up in the private messages.)
Without Ruben, I would not have moved over to UBB. I still think the presence of translators should not be in the marketing (or should be clarified!) if they don't work without moving everything to an old system, converting, upgrading, and moving back... but UBB is pretty uniquely easy to modify, which saves a lot of time; and works a LOT better than phpbb did! While being faster than IPB and Xenforo, IMHO - certainly the code is less absurdly complex than IPB's.
Last edited by DaveZ; 03/01/2021 5:28 PM.
