The CB1100 Community Forum

My thought is this forum should be a clean slate with as much useful data migrated into an archive as reasonable. It should not be a tedious manual copy/paste process. No one should be asked to do that.

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One other challenge with porting data, not all users from the old forum will come over to this one. Some have sold their bikes and moved on, others may have just not stayed active on the forum. So if you cannot port user accounts first, there will be a discrepancy when the users don't exist on the new forum but you may not want to create an account for them since you don't have their contact info.

Or, what if someone new signs up here taking a previously existing username on the old site? Then, the person using a username from the old forum doesn't match the person using that username on this forum? So you end up with an archive database that may not necessarily match up between the two forums.

Not a big deal for people who come over right away, but a couple possibilities.

(04-18-2025, 11:29 AM)kennyw Wrote: [ -> ]My thought is this forum should be a clean slate with as much useful data migrated into an archive as reasonable. It should not be a tedious manual copy/paste process. No one should be asked to do that.

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One other challenge with porting data, not all users from the old forum will come over to this one. Some have sold their bikes and moved on, others may have just not stayed active on the forum. So if you cannot port user accounts first, there will be a discrepancy when the users don't exist on the new forum but you may not want to create an account for them since you don't have their contact info.

Or, what if someone new signs up here taking a previously existing username on the old site? Then, the person using a username from the old forum doesn't match the person using that username on this forum? So you end up with an archive database that may not necessarily match up between the two forums.

Not a big deal for people who come over right away, but a couple possibilities.

Great points. Here are a few responses:

We will port everything when we do port.
We will setup a new account to associate the post which is deravitive of the user who authored the port. For example, data I have posted on the prior site will be ported over under account rdprdp01_port as opposed to rdprdp01. That way I can still be registered on both sites with my preferred login name but it does disconnect prior posts from the author. Sadly, that is unavoidable given the priority I have attached to allowing people to use their prior Forum name.
Once the data is ported, I will go through the tedious task of deleting those threads which have little or no long-term value.

This is the best I can come up with given the constraints we face. I welcome feedback on this plan but please be mindful of the very difficult constraints I face as I have to use screen scrap technology and custom scripts to capture data as opposed to a database restore. ?

Thanks for taking the time to provide some input. All great stuff. David