In the new board, you can't easily hotlink to a particular post, the way you can click on a post number over here.

Indeed. I'll fix that as soon as I get a chance. Thanks.

Fixed it.

Testing something:

smonster "Coffee On My Monitor Again" Sep 23, 2009 6:27:02 am PDT

Whatever you were testing, I hope it worked. And thank you for the lovely trip down memory lane. We've been funny people!

Looks like a missing feature for the new board.

So I just committed a perl script ('cause that's how I roll), that attempts to translate between the two databases, and clean up the data. The output is 210M compressed, which is smaller than I thought it would be.

As it is, it won't really work, because you define some fields to be non-NULL that don't exist in the old database.

So, anyway, take a look at the script. You could probably run it yourself, since mysql.buffistas.org doesn't seem to be firewalled. (I ran it several times during testing, so it wouldn't surprise me if we bump into some kind of provider database transfer limit, sorry!) Please check if the translation between the table names and field names looks OK, and anything else that you see needs to be fixed.

Cool. Thanks!

Working on user migration at the moment, but I haven't had much time.

I think it's going to work like this. If you have a current active account and login with your old password, you'll be redirected to a page to reset your password. You'll type in your user name, old password, new password, and new password confirmation. Once reset, you'll be able to log into the site with your new password. You won't need to use a different password if it is at least 8 characters long. Even if you use the same password, resetting it will still be required. E-mail activation won't be required in this case, only for brand new users.