It's a shame you can't get the posting data, it seems like a lot of things will be lost, or their original poster will be inactive (
or possibly just too lazy to re-post).
Just a question (
err..make that a few questions), what are you going to do about all the posts that don't get moved over here by their original posters? Are you just going to leave them, or end up posting them yourself (
I generally mean the posts that would be valuable to users - guides, tutorials, whatever)? And what about all the replies to posts (
that may also contain some sort of valuable material/information), even the ones that do get moved here?
I'm not sure how many inactive users there was on your old forum, but I doubt everyone who made a post is still active. It almost seems as though you should recruit someone to dig through the old forum and pull out all the valuable posts and re-post them here (
if the original poster doesn't re-post after some time) and you could just add something like "Original post by (Username)." so nobody will have a temper tantrum if someone re-posted their post.