Peter – I appreciate this may not be of much use but in the end I decided to go with Xenforo, which felt like a more robust and fully-featured forum. Of all the forum software I tried, the import process was by far the quickest – it converted the posts direct from my old server (so I didn’t need to download then upload any databases) and did the whole thing in about three hours. Considering other forum software was looking like it’d take days (or just timed out or went wrong), I was really happy with this.
(At risk of this thread going off topic I should add that if, at this point, anybody’s thinking “if he’s hoping to use bbPress for that big a forum I hope he’s considered the problems he’ll have with [BLANK]”, please do jump in!)
