[chrishajer]

Many people have posted about phpBB. Just click the tag you added phpBB and you’ll see lots of discussion.

Here are a couple:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter

RE: public, private and superprivate forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

That enables you to hide forums based on roles.