by davesmith_au » Sat Nov 11, 2023 12:26 pm
During the re-ignition process, it was necessary to go through the databases which underpin the forums 2.0 and 3.0 doing several "find and replace" functions. Essentially all internal links in the pre-migration forums had to be updated with a new "path" in the post-migration forums. I think I got them all.
There may be some images etc which won't display too, and I'm afraid that if that's the case, we're just going to have to wear it. We are frightfully lucky to have what we've got, thanks mostly to the diligence of some of the behind the scenes players before the migration. When I was tasked relatively recently (after some health issues had me stymied for a while) with trying to re-establish the forums, I initially had little hope of being able to, the main issue having been due to third-party actions during the site migration wherein several databases were corrupted.
I thank the Giant Spaghetti Monster that the main thunderbolts site was migrated correctly, and that we had our own backup databases (pre-migration) that I was able to manipulate to bring the forums back to life.
So, as we say, onward and upward!
Dave Smith, Forum Admin.
During the re-ignition process, it was necessary to go through the databases which underpin the forums 2.0 and 3.0 doing several "find and replace" functions. Essentially all internal links in the pre-migration forums had to be updated with a new "path" in the post-migration forums. I think I got them all.
There may be some images etc which won't display too, and I'm afraid that if that's the case, we're just going to have to wear it. We are frightfully lucky to have what we've got, thanks mostly to the diligence of some of the behind the scenes players before the migration. When I was tasked relatively recently (after some health issues had me stymied for a while) with trying to re-establish the forums, I initially had little hope of being able to, the main issue having been due to third-party actions during the site migration wherein several databases were corrupted.
I thank the Giant Spaghetti Monster that the main thunderbolts site was migrated correctly, and that we had our own backup databases (pre-migration) that I was able to manipulate to bring the forums back to life.
So, as we say, onward and upward!
Dave Smith, Forum Admin.