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lowtax plz don't spend $30,000 migrating the archives to xenforo
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Mar 1, 2017 01:46
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might be a bit belated but the point still stands: i don't think the forums rewrite is going.
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Mar 1, 2017 02:46
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Cold on a Cob posted:
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Mar 1, 2017 07:11
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the forums
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clojurescript is a lisp
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Mar 1, 2017 07:57
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Dr. Hans Klangwerk posted:I just want to be clear that I got quite far in the process of building the new forums before my personal situation/life changed quite a bit in ways I couldn't predict. I disagree with the people who say it isn't possible for one person to do the work, but I can't be that person anymore. Sorry! Dr. Hans Klangwerk posted:Yeah, it's not that it's half-baked (the parts I finished were production quality) but I doubt it would be very useful to anyone at this moment, since it's basically half a forum. I haven't given up on the project, and I think Lowtax is still on board with using our own software if it becomes stable at some point in the future. It just will probably take too long at this point, and as Lowtax has mentioned there are reasons to want to migrate off of the current software in the near term. another successful goon proujekect
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Mar 4, 2017 07:34
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"it's production-ready except it's not."
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Mar 4, 2017 07:44
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also I'm not releasing it to anyone else because its only half done
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Mar 4, 2017 08:20
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I absolutely, 100% believe that half a forum is completed
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Mar 4, 2017 08:22
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he just can't show it to us because it wouldn't be of any use
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Mar 4, 2017 08:22
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Just look at the other projects I've completed such as
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Mar 4, 2017 08:46
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Ploft-shell crab posted:I absolutely, 100% believe that half a forum is completed "my uncle works at nintendo and has the best forum software. he let me see it and i put some of the ideas into my code, but my uncle saw it and said i'm not allowed to show anyone in case he gets fired"
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Mar 4, 2017 14:16
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pram posted:another successful goon proujekect what a boob
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Mar 4, 2017 15:46
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pram posted:another successful goon proujekect lmao. the last 10% of a project takes 90% of the effort. this guy did the easy stuff and then bailed out.
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Mar 4, 2017 16:46
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At least lowtax figured him out in a few months instead of a few years like radium.
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Mar 4, 2017 16:51
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did we establish whether lowtax actually paid this guy?
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Mar 4, 2017 16:53
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gonna assume that's a yuuuuuuuup
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Mar 4, 2017 22:12
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Gazpacho posted:He already went to college for computer,
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Mar 4, 2017 22:36
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The Management posted:did we establish whether lowtax actually paid this guy? doubtful
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Mar 5, 2017 05:15
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im really getting a lot of laughs out of these forums announcements where he tries to pretend it's 1999 again and everyone is dying for a mood house sequel.
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Mar 5, 2017 05:33
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March 4th or whatever day it is today update: I'm currently in contact and talking with the people from Xenforo about migrating to their forum software package. Working on the details such as customization, costs, archives, and ramifications of moving now vs when they release v2.0. The cost of importing / migrating all the archived posts is gonna be a real bitch, so here's hoping we can work out a deal! Sincerely, Rich "Kyanka" Kyanka
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Mar 5, 2017 08:16
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cis autodrag posted:im really getting a lot of laughs out of these forums announcements where he tries to pretend it's 1999 again and everyone is dying for a mood house sequel. 2x the monkey and 4x the cheese
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Mar 5, 2017 09:08
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At least he's not looking for another beat down by uwe boll
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Mar 5, 2017 10:01
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Yet
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Mar 5, 2017 10:02
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Millstone posted:March 4th or whatever day it is today update: I agree, let's wait until the untested version comes out to migrate our weirdly complicated paperclip-and-bubblegum forums.
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Mar 5, 2017 10:52
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same
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Mar 5, 2017 13:03
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I'm confused about why migrating posts is such a big deal. write a script to query the posts, transform the tags in them, dump them into a transaction file in the sql format of the new forum, and do a batch insert when done. writing the script takes effort, obviously, but it's hardly insurmountable.
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Mar 5, 2017 17:09
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The Management posted:I'm confused about why migrating posts is such a big deal. write a script to query the posts, transform the tags in them, dump them into a transaction file in the sql format of the new forum, and do a batch insert when done. writing the script takes effort, obviously, but it's hardly insurmountable. xenforo probably charges by the post or something
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Mar 5, 2017 17:18
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I don't get why he keeps getting hung up on migrating existing forums content at all. ~my precious treasure trove of shitposts~ whatever shall I do without it, laments the taxman
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Mar 5, 2017 18:05
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Clockwerk posted:my precious treasure trove of shitposts~ whatever shall I do without it unfortunately this is what half the forum actually believes
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Mar 5, 2017 18:11
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Sweevo posted:unfortunately this is what half the forum actually believes They say that but how many people would really leave? You would just have a bunch of reposts and continuations on the new board. Instead lowtax wants the xenforo team to migrate this rats nest of code and it's going to cost a lot for their time.
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Mar 5, 2017 18:14
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just dump the database and let people download it if they want, anybody who wants to build a frontend to it can go hog wild. bringing it across into the structure of a new forum seems like a waste of effort. host it at sa if you want to still sell archives access, its got to be a cheaper option than migrating it.
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Mar 5, 2017 18:20
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yeah, plenty of good options that don't involve twiddling thumbs and also don't lock him out of eventually providing access to the archives in the future. but no, let's make archives a top priority and hold everything back until it's accomplished
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Mar 5, 2017 18:25
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it's because archives cost money, isn't it?
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Mar 5, 2017 18:34
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people are going to flip their poo poo if the post button is two pixels to the left, so god forbid you don't port over the vital stuff like the posting gloryhole or saclopedia
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Mar 5, 2017 18:47
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Clockwerk posted:I don't get why he keeps getting hung up on migrating existing forums content at all. ~my precious treasure trove of shitposts~ whatever shall I do without it, laments the taxman need to migrate users anyway, and i suspect there is far more sa-specific strangeness to take into account there than there is in getting threads migrated over
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Mar 5, 2017 19:06
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so tl;dr: i will write a commercial grade forums solution, from scratch, in less than a year, by myself ...  ... so for personal reasons, i'll have to bail on this totally 90% completed project, no you can't see the code whoever could have seen this coming? no one, probably
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Mar 5, 2017 19:47
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Millstone posted:March 4th or whatever day it is today update:
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Mar 5, 2017 20:02
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i'm sure this has been discussed to death, but what was the logic behind paying some rando to reinvent the wheel from first principles, rather than pay for customization of a proven solution?
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Mar 5, 2017 20:10
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ugh why not build a simple archives viewer instead of trying to jam it into xenforo just throw it up on elasticsearch or something and make people pay to use the frontend
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Mar 5, 2017 20:29
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infernal machines posted:so tl;dr: the best part is when he said that the code that he did write is "production ready"
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Mar 5, 2017 20:34
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