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So this is really simple, all settings, user profiles including:
  • Signatures
  • Avatar
  • Bio
  • Anything on the profile
Likewise any and all Admin Settings (themes, and all) should be put in a file in a folder (Named at your will and taste) will contain all the site's set settings. When we go to update the forum, say we start this with the release of 1.9.X, upgrading all the main files, but the updated install doesn't touch the items in the override file/folder but insteads pull's its settings from it.

So it would work like this:

On the first install upgrade to 1.9.0 the feature would be implemented, meaning you can export/import all the users as wished, but you would need to "Verify" all site/theme settings, after each setting has been saved/updated it gets pushed/copied/stored in the override file/folder. Then when the next release of 1.9.1 comes along, while upgrading, what ever was changed will change, but then it will run a "Forum Initialization" set up where it restores what's in the override file/folder.

Yes, I understand all XXk users won't fit in a file, but you can update the way the players are stored (In their complete own table with all their needed information such as bans/warnings/post count/rep ect) then you can have a cron run to make a copy of that table and put it in (and overwrite) the member table.