Two forums or what?
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It didn't even import my goddamn username - and I registered a couple of years ago on CS. I don't know how you could possibly expect importing posts to work out.
I think they only imported people who were active or had over 100 posts or something.
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I think they only imported people who were active or had over 100 posts or something.
Yes. The unimportant were left behind like garbage.
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Yes. The unimportant were left behind like garbage.
Time to start littering here in the new forum then, I guess! Yay!
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Yay, I'm important!
Filed Under: My mother was right
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Seriously though, @apapadimoulis, I would be willing to take a crack at it. I'd need the dump of the post tables; a dump of some posts on Discourse so I can see the structure, how it stores markup internally, etc; and the username/id pairs on both sites.
If you can't, I will. I already offered way back when the Discourse forums were being talked about. I consider it a critical feature. No one will ever read the "old" forums. And if they do, they'll be pissed off they can't reply. And ongoing conversations will be fucked over by being suddenly cut off. It's bad form. Another stab into the heart of a community. Seriously, why is "preserving the community" not a #1 mission critical priority, given the community is the only reason the forums exist or are successful (and thus generate traffic, ad revenue, google indexes, etc...)?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
If you can't, I will.
I got the db dump from Alex last night, so I've only started looking through it. Right now I'm working on sorting out what is easy, what is relatively doable, what's difficult but theoretically possible, and what is impossible. I'll probably rope you in once I've got things sorted out. DoctorJones expressed interest in helping, too. We'll form a coalition of powerful and attractive heroes who work together for the glory of TDWTF.
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I would be willing to toss in some time as well.
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We'll form a coalition of powerful and attractive heroes
@mikeTheLiar said:[and] I would be willing to toss in some time as well.
Indeed.
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@mikeTheLiar will be the Wonder Twins to our Justice League.
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Again, I'm willing to donate my time and expertise. (joe.edwards on the old forum.)
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Okay. You can be, uh... I think the Wonder Twins had a monkey?
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I would be willing to toss in some time as well.
I'm not, but I'm willing to put my name on the project in the interest of siphoning off some of the glory.
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I'll probably rope you in once I've got things sorted out.
Cool, shoot me a message here or get my email address from Alex when/if.
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I'll take on the most important role: Senior Management.
No, sorry, I don't have any time to help with the migration. We're in talks with a large web site who is migrating to a new CMS. We want to merge our two migrations together. Then we'll probably lay off the engineering team and outsource the whole thing to India.
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We'll form a coalition of powerful and attractive heroes who work together for the glory of TDWTF.
And also me.
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Condolences.
On the contrary, I think this is a great strategic move for our migration. There's a lot of synergy there, and the buzz on the Tweetosphere is that this is going to build our brand with the coveted 18-35 demo.
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Mike, do you have a minute to step into my office?
This isn't going to be like last time, right? I couldn't sit for a week.
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Mike, you've been a valued member of this migration since post #57, which is what makes this so difficult. But I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go. It's tough times all around, what with the economy.
Nagesh will be taking your place. He's 50% of your quality at 47% of your price. Our cost-benefit guys ran the numbers, and with the money we'll be saving we can buy the engineering team a new chair. They'll have to share it, but no more sitting on old stacks of newspapers for them.
We were going to get you a Going Away present, but this year's Senior Management yacht budget got a bit out of control. Still, I can't let you leave empty handed, so here's a coupon for unlimited free salad and breadsticks from The Olive Garden, with the purchase of a full-priced entree. It expired last month, but I changed the "4" to a "5", so you can probably still use it.
Best of luck, Mike. Look us up when you're big and famous; maybe you can come back and tell us how to do things right.
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Crap, I'm out.
Relax. If anyone should be worried about getting bumped for @ben_lubar , it's obviously the monkey.
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Nagesh will be taking your place. He's 50% of your quality at 47% of your price.
I seriously question the accuracy of those figures. I think they're missing decimal points.
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I seriously question the accuracy of those figures. I think they're missing decimal points.
Well obviously there's a recruiting bonus for the valued team member who brought us Nagesh.
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Well obviously there's a recruiting bonus for the valued team member who brought us Nagesh.
And does this valued team member also get the lashes when we're forced to shove Nagesh into a crate and ship him back to Thirdworldistan?
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Nagesh will be taking your place. He's 50% of your quality
This is the most insulting thing anyone's ever said to me. That includes the time when I was eight, my mom was drunk, and she told me that I a "goddam fucking waste of space" and she regretted "not having to balls to hold me down in the sink until I stopped struggling when I was a infant".
You think I'm worth two Nagesh (Nageshes? Nageshi?)? You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
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That includes the time when I was eight, my mom was drunk, and she told me that I a "goddam fucking waste of space" and she regretted "not having to balls to hold me down in the sink until I stopped struggling when I was a infant".
That's one of the saddest examples of parenting I've ever heard of. You were only eight! She could have easily stood on you in a full bathtub. No commitment.
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And does this valued team member also get the lashes when we're forced to shove Nagesh into a crate and ship him back to Thirdworldistan?
No, because that would not be a failure of the recruiting process, but of the engineering team. So the lashes would go to the engineering lead, whomever that might be.
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You think I'm worth two Nagesh (Nageshes? Nageshi?)?
No, of course not. Two really bad employee do not add up to one only-kinda-sorta-bad employee.
Besides, if I hired two Nageshen I wouldn't be able to afford that sterling silver martini set for
mythe company's yacht.
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So the lashes would go to the engineering lead, whomever that might be.
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure we're going to get blowback from PETA and ASPCA if we whip the monkey we put in charge. What if we punish one of the data entry drones? Oh! Even better idea: we'll give the lashes to someone on the help desk. It's their fault for not helping Nagesh be successful.
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Are you sure? I'm pretty sure we're going to get blowback from PETA and ASPCA if we whip the monkey we put in charge. What if we punish one of the data entry drones? Oh! Even better idea: we'll give the lashes to someone on the help desk. It's their fault for not helping Nagesh be successful.
I don't want to micromanage here. I want all employees to feel empowered to make decisions that I don't-really care-about / don't-want-to-take-responsibility-for.
So whip whomever you want. If it works, I'll take credit for facilitating your whipping. If we get sued, then I will empower you to take the fall.
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So whip whomever you want.
In that case, I'm whipping everyone and calling it a team-building exercise.
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By the way, when you get that SQL import file ready, let me know and I'll take a look and.. uh.. check that it's good.
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Where's Marion Akin when you need her...?
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My wife is looking at me strangely because I'm laughing so hard. Good work guys - if you put in 10% of this effort into migrating the data, I'm sure we'll be fine
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but no more sitting on old stacks of newspapers for them.
We just ended our susbscription to all the papers, so there won't be any more stacks to sit on.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Another stab into the heart of a community. Seriously, why is "preserving the community" not a #1 mission critical priority, given the community is the only reason the forums exist or are successful (and thus generate traffic, ad revenue, google indexes, etc...)?
I look forward to seeing how this import goes without the
seldom-posting but still existant usersuseless pieces of trash left behind at the old forum whose IDs are still associated with the occasional post.
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My wife is looking at me strangely because I'm laughing so hard. Good work guys - if you put in 10% of this effort into migrating the data, I'm sure we'll be fine
In spite of having a developer's job, you found a mate. That is hope for me, or are males too scarce in your country?
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There is no hope for you, Nagesh. The sooner you realise that then the more at-peace you will be.
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There is no hope for you, Nagesh. The sooner you realise that then the more at-peace you will be.
I will rely on my and to get a mate.
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Your clover and drum? OK... so you want an Irish drummerboy as a mate? Knock yourself out!
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You seem to have a drum in your mouth. Is this dangerous?
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Your clover and drum? OK... so you want an Irish drummerboy as a mate? Knock yourself out!
You seem to have a drum in your mouth. Is this dangerous?
My luck and my sweet tongue.
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Well, I hope you have a lot of luck, because you're all out on the second one...
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Well, I hope you have a lot of luck, because you're all out on the second one...
I am not too worried. I can lick my eyebrow with my tongue.
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I am not too worried. I can lick my eyebrow with my tongue.
I am 100% done with the Internet for today.