Larrchild wrote on Sat, 15 January 2011 12:21 |
Having ported databases from old cms's to new ones over the last decade, I can say it's usually possible to create scripts for en masse conversion, but this one is not widely used, so custom work is possibly needed. Let's hope for that.
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To me this should be a given.
If the problem is the current forum software, switch to the new software (ideally using the CSS and other templating options to make it a little less generic and more prosoundweb in appearance), write scripts to move all the old threads and users over, and just make the switch in the two hours of downtime they seem to have every day.
Users shouldn't have to worry about registering to the new forum, or have to differentiate between old forum threads and new ones, they should just see a bit of a difference in the user interface next time they log in.