Are there / were there any initiatives for standardizing forum content storage?Over the years forums that I've moderated have gone through cycles where due to change in engine, old content was effectively gone forever. I am wondering if there is any kind of compliance that one can seek out in a forum engine so that migrating from one engine to another is possible.
Open standard for forum content storage?
forum;standards
Jeff Atwood is one of the founders of this site.   He since left StackExchange to create a forum product called Discourse.  I found a thread on his site with comments from him that are relevant:... all data must be migrated is the Vietnam of forum software, leading to massive retention of ancient forum versions across the web and a huge black eye for forum software in general. I heard an untold number of horror stories from companies that do nothing but specialize in forum migrations. I could see it in their eyes.. I remember.. I remember everything..Based on his comments, it appears that there is no standard for forum content storage that would facilitate forum software migrations.  