Question Change website and use only kunena 1.6 forum

Hi,

I would like to ask for some help and advice.

At present I have a forum wich runs kunena 1.5.9 intergrated with community builder (latest release)

What I would like to do is as follows

I am renaming the site new logo , new name and new URL

I would like to run Kunena 1.6.1 without the communiy builder intergration, as I feel the new 1.6.1 offers everything that having community builder offers for my needs.

Q1: How would i transfer my database to the new site to keep the forum topics, threads etc...
Q2: will it be possiable to migrate the community builder user details into Kunena? (social pages birthdays,user name, passwords and avatars etc...)
Q3: I would also like to have something which is slick and simple in design like this site (Is it just a standard joomla template but modified)
Q4: I have been debating for ages to change to another forum app because kunena 1.5.9 is very heavy on the sql quiries and people on the internet say it is not a serious forum app and the fact that it runs in joomla (is that the same with the new Kunena?, I am sure I read that it is a lot lighter on databse quiries)
Q5: will there be any forthcomming plans to intergrate with iphone/android ?

All and any advise would be much appreciated

many thanks
Jay

Jay,

I recommend you get some help from someone that knows MySQL very well. All of that can be done with a few exports and a few queries, but it is nothing for someone without deep database skills.

I would hire someone to do the migration for you. If you don't know mysql well, a complex migration like that can quickly get you into problems with incorrect sql or fail data transfers.

A full site from server to server is one thing, changing and migrating data a long the way makes it more involving.

Even with that it should take less than 8h to perform that migration for you.

Hope this helps!