When trying to import external forums into Drupal, the main difficuilty that arises is a single fundamental difference between Drupal forums and the rest of today's forums.
It's the same one difference that for example makes common administrative tasks such as splitting or merging threads (while keeping in chronological order), etc., is easy in well-known forum systems but very much difficult in Drupal forums, core and Advanced and even directly editing the database. Drupal forums are good and usable in most cases, with most normal functions similar to other systems but, for more advanced moderation, they are not yet ready.
Why? What's that basic difference?
We can see it in the support forums of the currently most popular forum systems, such as vBulletin, phpBB, SMF, and Invision Power or we can install them and look at the tables where posts and threads are stored.
Drupal have modules for threaded and flat forums, so this is not the main difference. Most current forums are linear/flat by default, but part of them admit both linear and threaded display modes.
The basic difference is another one, truly simple but with fundamental effects:
It's the same one difference that for example makes common administrative tasks such as splitting or merging threads (while keeping in chronological order), etc., is easy in well-known forum systems but very much difficult in Drupal forums, core and Advanced and even directly editing the database. Drupal forums are good and usable in most cases, with most normal functions similar to other systems but, for more advanced moderation, they are not yet ready.
Why? What's that basic difference?
We can see it in the support forums of the currently most popular forum systems, such as vBulletin, phpBB, SMF, and Invision Power or we can install them and look at the tables where posts and threads are stored.
Drupal have modules for threaded and flat forums, so this is not the main difference. Most current forums are linear/flat by default, but part of them admit both linear and threaded display modes.
The basic difference is another one, truly simple but with fundamental effects:
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