well, I’m sure if you spend a couple of minutes, you could convert the old phpbb db into something that the mysql importer for this would digest.
That’s kinda sad. Years of shitposting gone down the drain.
On a serious note though, I think we are going to see a lot of questions being asked that have been answered on phpbb already. Let’s be honest here no one is going to bother to dig trough discourse and phpbb if they weren’t able to use the search in the first place.
Edit: Then again having discourse definitely is an upgrade.
By the way: Did you assign more resources to gitlab since tt-rss.org first moved from redmine to gitlab? It does feel a lot snappier now than it did back then.
There is a distinct lack of bears.
There’s always going to be some pain when migrating, but I think it’s worth it in the end. We can always link to the old posts or even copy/paste the content as questions come up.
To be completely honest, I agree with fox that the search in phpBB was horrible. It was pretty difficult to find issues that were less than common or not pinned.
True that.
I hope fox will be able to bear the amount of user coming to the forums crying.
Maybe we should skim the old forums and start threads regarding the topics most commonly asked.
By the way I don’t see categories for Tiny Tiny IRC. Is it dead?
Fox mentioned he’d upgraded gitlab too. the new version was supposed to be better performing.
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There is a distinct lack of bears.[/quote]
well, get to work fixing that… chop chop.
Re: search, I did notice that Google results are obviously still pointing at the old forum URL, which will now drop you to the front page of this forum. An intelligent user will just grab the URL and change it from /forum/ to /oldforum/, and those are the only ones that come here. 
Looking forward to the flurry of bear posts in the near future.
Good point. Maybe fox can update Nginx to something (roughly, requires tweaking) like:
location = /forum {
return 301 [... discourse...];
}
location ~ /forum/(.+) {
return 301 /oldforum/$1;
}
That should keep the site in Google’s good books while still redirecting people who may have bookmarked the old forum to the new URL.
I like the extra huge emoticons in the rss feed
even the emoticons are HD, welcome to $current_year!
Maybe fox can update Nginx to something (roughly, requires tweaking) like
not sure if it is the best idea tbh, old forums are here when we need to reference a post or something, but people should be directed to discourse first
i can easily imagine someone opening a google search result, never noticing the url changes or stickies pointing to discord because phpbb UI is terrible and it’s impossible to find anything in the UI overflowing with random blue shit, trying to reply or register or whatever and realizing none of that is possible
in any case /oldforum/ is still linked at the frontpage and a sticky here, so it’s easy enough to find and for search engines to adapt, if anything i might need to block it in robots.txt so that it would gradually fade away from search results
i mean even if we suffer some extra posts here well it’s more bears to feed isn’t it
I, for one, welcomes the new and improved forums. It no longer feels like the 1990s!
Thank you @fox.
Oh dear. Didn’t expect to see Discourse - we ended up having to move away from it for various reasons a while back.
Don’t think any of them will apply here though, so it should work for you.
Oh dear. Didn’t expect to see Discourse - we ended up having to move away from it for various reasons a while back.
Just being curious, what were those?
Just being curious, what were those?
Briefly, since I don’t really want to pollute another forum with our difficulties:
- Resource issues. 4GB of ram, 60GB of disk, and 4 processor cores struggled badly with about 250 regularly posting users.
- We sorta… “fell out” with the developers and they told us, in no uncertain terms, to go find other software. I, along with most of the others on said forum, are currently banned on their main forum for another 250 years or so.
PM if you need/want to know more.
gonna agree that jeff fatwood of snack overflow is quite an acquired taste
In the deem past, I used Vanilla when I had to set up forum. Although at the time, there was no premium crap with “extra features”. And, I do not suggest tt-rss forums move to that now that Fox has moved us here. Just musing… 
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2) We sorta… “fell out” with the developers and they told us, in no uncertain terms, to go find other software. I, along with most of the others on said forum, are currently banned on their main forum for another 250 years or so.[/quote]
tell someone their code is a bloated pig and instead of fixing it, they get all bitchy…
Personally I fsckin hate discourse, but I hate phpbb even more than discourse, so its an improvement!
I still miss Delphi so maybe I’m just an old fart