Nitro Porter support expansion

As some large proprietary social platforms have become increasingly problematic to stick to, communities are looking for alternatives. The biggest hurdle to changing to open alternatives is the migration process. Folks understandably don’t want to give up their community’s history and legacy even if the new tool is obviously better. This creates lock-in and stagnation across the entire industry as everyone settles for “good enough” in how we build communities online.

Nitro Porter seeks to “free communities” by giving them a straightforward tool to migrate to the software of their choice. It offers dozens of source products and several target products. It does this by using an intermediary “porter format” that is universally adaptable to all community data structures that also grew out of Vanilla Forums. In this project, NitroPorter will implement migrations to a number of new targets: Discourse, NodeBB, Agorakit, PhpBB, and Simple Machines Forum.