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Migrating from Tapatalk - questions
Topic Started: Jul 18 2017, 04:45 PM (1,030 Views)
shakeninsane
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Hello good people!

So me and my friends are long-time forum users. We had a forum over at good old Forumer, which was adopted by Yuku at some point. Being on Yuku for quite some time now, and it's been alright.

These last days, however, they migrated our forum over to Tapatalk Groups. Let me just say that was a total disaster. Our posts are all OK but the UI is a train wreck and there is very little you can do about it, design wise.
Tapatalk seems to want to cater to mobile users a lot more, and it reminds me more of those old MSN and Yahoo groups or something. Fair enough, I am sure they are doing it for a reason. They need to live, too, I guess.

Anyway, as it is now, our forum is just so ugly and deformed. We use forums because we wanted an old forum, akin to the ezboards and invisionboards we are used to and like.

I see you are also being adopted by Tapatalk, and I am wondering, will it be in the same way as Yuku? As in, all boards will be forced to follow the Tapatalk Group look? We also lost our URL to our site. It gave us a new URL even though I was told it would not change.

So my questions are:
1. Are we allowed to have a forum in another language than english? As in, does it violate any TOS to talk in another language than english on the board? (This was an issue way back when on some forums.)

2. Is it possible to migratre our entire forum, threads and all, from our Yuku/Tapatalk Groups and into an invisionboard? (The Tapatalk Amind CP states it's running on phpBB so I'm guessing it should be possible?)
We don't care about the design at the moment, as there IS no design, since Tapatalk Groups nuked any old theme we were using. We only want our threads.

3. Will invisionboards, the ones with the z-named servers, (Sorry, I am not completely in the loop on the differences here) still be like the good old forum setup everyone loves? (NOT forced into Tapatalk Group look?)

Answers are much appreciated!
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1. The Terms of Service states the following:
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If you wish to have posts on your forum in a language other than English, you must purchase ad removal.


2. Zathyus does not currently import databases from other services. Zathyus' zIFBoards (based off an old IPB 1.3.x platform and since heavily customized) is actually being transitioned out of existence into either Zathyus' other service, ZetaBoarts, or to TapaTalk (probably some phpBB platform). Obviously since you weren't a fan of TapaTalk I wouldn't recommend starting a zIFBoard. If you were to use ZetaBoards, you'd have to start from scratch.

3) ZetaBoards is really nice. It's got a lot of similarities to IPB 1.3.x I suppose because it was built with the intent to migrate zIFBoards (then called InvisionFree) over without any kind of data loss and retaining all the favorite features. It's decent software for free, simple to use. I recommend maybe registering a test ZetaBoard to play with and see if you like it. My understanding is that it will keep its own look, not take on a TapaTalk-type look, and I think it's the kind of look you're going for.
Edited by Jonathan, Jul 18 2017, 05:10 PM.
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Jul 18 2017, 04:58 PM
1. The Terms of Service states the following:
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If you wish to have posts on your forum in a language other than English, you must purchase ad removal.


Oh ouch! :cry:

Hm, so if we were to choose Zetaboards, (though unlikely anyway because we use mixed languages in our forum), it would be impossible to transfer our posts from our now Tapatalk Group to Zetaboards, correct? (Not Zifboard)
It's only the threads/topics (and users) and not any theme/design etc.

Considering it's all going to be Tapatalk, it would be interesting if they will migrate people back and forth like that, if possible.

But I am guessing we might just need to find somewhere else. :\
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If you need a host for your forums and don't want to pay, ZetaBoards is the way to go. I have had a few boards over the years and I'm currently on ZetaBoards myself trying my best to get my forums up and running to an active state. I'm really happy with ZetaBoards and it's a pretty powerful platform. As stated, you'd have to start fresh, but you can always leave a link back to the old forum on your new ZetaBoards forum.

There's also a lot of code modifications and themes to choose from. :)

Here's a few examples of ZetaBoards:
http://www.revillution.net
http://www.sonicblast.org
http://s15.zetaboards.com/wethegamers
http://www.atriumforum.com
http://forums.planetnexus.net

I would definitely recommend using ZetaBoards. Most free platforms won't allow you to migrate into them.
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Oooh, a cryptic edit to my post was made that says "Zathyus does not currently import..." Staff hinting at the future? :D The integration of TapaTalk into Zathyus services is new and may have implications for the future that we don't yet know about.

This board uses the ZetaBoards platform btw, so if you like what you see here style-wise then ZB suits your appearance needs.
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Well, haha, this Zetaboard look is alright. I prefer a more gnarly 2001 look to it but that can be fixed with a theme, haha. But yeah, this is the type of platform we want. Not the utter mess that is Tapatalk Groups.

But if Zetaboards does not allow non-english unless you pay for ad-removal, then it's no longer free. :\ And then I might aswell find a non-tapatalk forum somewhere, that's totally free.

I'm guessing if I want things transferred, I would have to get a domain and set up a phpBB board on my own. But I am unsure if I can "download" our forum from Tapatalk ACP?
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