Author Topic: Accessing the old forum (Read 11871 times)

GrahamMoir · « **on:** January 14, 2016, 09:24:33 pm »

It's great that the new forum has kept the history of knowledge from the old forum. However, some threads that have been copied across have content such as "Have a look at this thread <hyperlink>" as an answer to a question, where "<hyperlink>" is a URL to a thread in the old forum. If you click on it you get the page that tells you the old forum is in maintenance mode so you can't access the details/answer.

Any ideas how to get round this?

qwerty · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2016, 09:39:29 pm »

I already asked for that (my private links got lost). No answer to that. Just forget about it. They do not really care.

q.

Uffe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2016, 10:52:57 pm »

I don't think there's a simple way to convert the old YaBB links to the current SMF format at the client end.
If the Sparx admins could take the old forum out of maintenance and set all the boards read-only, that should work. However, setting boards read-only might not be possible if the YaBB version was really old (which I think it was).

/U

Geert Bellekens · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2016, 11:29:41 pm »

No, but in theory it should be possible to redirect them on the server side.
But I'm afraid they don't see the added value of such a construction.

Geert

GrahamMoir · « **Reply #4 on:** January 15, 2016, 12:32:39 am »

Read-only access to the old forum would be good if it is possible.

GrahamMoir · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2016, 12:34:36 am »

Quote from: qwerty on January 14, 2016, 09:39:29 pm

I already asked for that (my private links got lost). No answer to that. Just forget about it. They do not really care.

q.

Apologies I'm a bit behind. May be I'll have to forget about it, just seems a shame to lose that capability.

qwerty · « **Reply #6 on:** January 15, 2016, 12:46:16 am »

Well, they replaced an antique forum (I heard that Platon and Sokrates already have used it) to a medieval one. What can one expect?

Btw.: When replying the cursor is not placed in the text input field. You have to click it in order to actually type text. How odd is that?

q.

GrahamMoir · « **Reply #7 on:** January 15, 2016, 02:58:05 am »

Also, quick aside, how did you guys carry forward your profile details such as number of posts ?

Geert Bellekens · « **Reply #8 on:** January 15, 2016, 03:52:08 am »

Yes we did.
(6000+ posts in two months would be a bit much, even for qwerty and me

)

Geert

qwerty · « **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2016, 07:50:49 am »

This time they got the shift. With the last forum change we all started from scratch. They might have learnt a bit.

Meanwhile they cleaned the member list from robots. But all members from the old forum have attended with UNIX-T=0 (that's 1970).

q.

Eve · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2016, 09:01:56 am »

I've just checked the settings on the old forum.

There are options to prevent posts and replies on each board, and separate options to prevent post edits.

Based on that, it appears feasible to have a read-only copy of the forum, but there may also be things that I've missed. I'll pass on what I found and let them make a decision.

Eve · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2016, 10:25:15 am »

Tom has enabled the old forum in a read-only state.

There's no guarantee that it will remain there forever.

qwerty · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2016, 10:27:02 am »

I'm deeply impressed. Will print my old forum link content right away...

q.

Uffe · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2016, 07:43:18 pm »

Bootiful!

Thanks Simon, Tom.

/Uffe

Graham_Moir · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2016, 09:41:52 pm »

Quote from: GrahamMoir on January 15, 2016, 02:58:05 am

Also, quick aside, how did you guys carry forward your profile details such as number of posts ?

To answer my own question, it looks as though you just need to setup/create a profile on the new forum which has the same username as the old forum.

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