Old M3F Still A Possibility?

[BMWahba]

Helll yes!!!

[MrTRex]

I was able to rescue 145,198 threads from the old site. So I have a lot of stuff. I'm working on writing a migration tool to import all that stuff, but it's tricky. Hopefully, I'll have something going here shortly.

Great! 👍

[robgill]

I was able to rescue 145,198 threads from the old site. So I have a lot of stuff. I'm working on writing a migration tool to import all that stuff, but it's tricky. Hopefully, I'll have something going here shortly.

Any chance there are some Member Build Journals in there 😃.

[T-Rex]

Well, that's excellent news that a lot of threads were salvaged. Frankly, I'm just happy that Terra, Ian, Liam and others stepped up to fill the void - it is deeply appreciated!

[liam821]

Any chance there are some Member Build Journals in there 😃.

There is a bunch in there for sure. I'm still unsure how I want to do the mapping of the previous forum username to the current forum username. Not everybody is using the same name/case/spelling/whatever. I may just post all the archive stuff under a single username of "m3f-importer" and then put the original m3f username at the top of each post or something like that and then anybody can continue the thread from there. The mods can always edit the posts if need be on a one-by-one basis.

Well, that's excellent news that a lot of threads were salvaged. Frankly, I'm just happy that Terra, Ian, Liam and others stepped up to fill the void - it is deeply appreciated!

[stash1]

I was able to rescue 145,198 threads from the old site. So I have a lot of stuff. I'm working on writing a migration tool to import all that stuff, but it's tricky. Hopefully, I'll have something going here shortly.

Nice, thanx for all of the hard work!

[t3ddftw]

There is a bunch in there for sure. I'm still unsure how I want to do the mapping of the previous forum username to the current forum username. Not everybody is using the same name/case/spelling/whatever. I may just post all the archive stuff under a single username of "m3f-importer" and then put the original m3f username at the top of each post or something like that and then anybody can continue the thread from there. The mods can always edit the posts if need be on a one-by-one basis.

Why not do a case insensitive match on usernames? You can then assume the users are the same person.

If spelling changed, then that's on the user.

Another option is to add an attribute (I assume you can add attributes to vBulletin) to the member profiles where they can drop in their M3F username so your importer can match it.

[BearDeXPS]

I'm just here for the nut hugging

[IamFODI]

Another option is to add an attribute (I assume you can add attributes to vBulletin) to the member profiles where they can drop in their M3F username so your importer can match it.

I like this idea if it's doable. 👍