Whatever you were testing, I hope it worked. And thank you for the lovely trip down memory lane. We've been funny people!
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Beverly - Jul 01, 2018 8:40:20 am PDT #4120 of 4671
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Gudanov - Jul 01, 2018 10:00:33 am PDT #4121 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Looks like a missing feature for the new board.
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2018 10:16:32 am PDT #4122 of 4671
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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.
Gudanov - Jul 01, 2018 10:34:43 am PDT #4123 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Cool. Thanks!
Gudanov - Jul 09, 2018 5:29:24 pm PDT #4124 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Working on user migration at the moment, but I haven't had much time.
Gudanov - Jul 19, 2018 9:05:37 am PDT #4125 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Beverly - Jul 20, 2018 12:14:08 am PDT #4126 of 4671
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Will this site eventually go away? Or is the new site just for phone users? Everybody migrates, this one gets mothballed? Will this one remain searchable? Or can we access old threads from the new site? Will the new site have a COMM, and mine it for the quotes site?
Luddites want to know.
Gudanov - Jul 20, 2018 3:44:58 am PDT #4127 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Yes this site will eventually go away, but all the threads will be migrated to the new one. There will still be COMM, but I don't know about the quotes site as I don't know how the quotes bit works. If that is broken, the functionality could be added as part of the new site.
Gudanov - Jul 20, 2018 3:53:50 am PDT #4128 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Once migration functionality is being tested on the beta site, it will be more clear how things will work. On the UI front, I still need to add the left sidebar as an option on larger displays so that will make things more familiar.
Gudanov - Jul 20, 2018 3:58:34 am PDT #4129 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Oh. If you are an existing user and don't know your password, I'll modify the 'I forgot my password' functionality to migrate when it resets a password though that relies on having a a good profile email address. If you are an existing user and don't know your password and don't have a good profile address, then it will be time to contact an admin.