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Short answer, yes, it's possible to migrate from Xenforo to Discourse. The majority of things should export/import just fine, including threads, messages, private messages, etc. I'm not 100% about moving the entire database over though (if we did commit to this, I'm going to likely gut years of content that nobody looks at, because it's being for bloat.)
Longer answer, certain features, like from our add-on's, will not transfer over.
That said, Discourse is open-source, public, and free (it's like they wanted it to be successful and supported by the community or something?!)
I'll have to research all the add-on's we currently have to see if there is something similar for Discourse.
I'm willing to bet the answer is "yes" to most of that, and probably fundamentally better than most of the crap we're running on here.
There is no urgent rush on this, other than feeling like the current software we use is starting to "dead end" in terms of being worth using or providing functionality.
If it keeps on the way it is going well need to be thinking about it...

and it shouldn't be like that.
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