Migrating 3,000 bbPress topics — wish me luck

Marco Silva Marco Silva hace 1 mes

Hello! I'm Marco. I'm moving a 3,000-topic bbPress forum over to Jetonomy this month and I'm equal parts excited and nervous.

If you've done a migration of that size, I'd love to hear what surprised you.

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Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.