SDS Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 We have 4.5 Million posts, but for the most part it is a slow moving chat room. I'm not sure many threads are revisited after a couple weeks have past. If/when I migrate the forum to a contemporary software package - should I just leave the 4.5M posts behind and just transfer the structure and user accounts over? That would mean every forum would start fresh, but there would be a link to the old archives. Any opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Fine with me, though Im sure some will be upset to see their post counts reset to zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I would suggest that those 4.5 million posts represent a critical historical record of the Bills' unprecedented 17-year playoff drought that we should make every effort, for the sake of posterity, to get rid of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I would suggest that those 4.5 million posts represent a critical historical record of the Bills' unprecedented 17-year playoff drought that we should make every effort, for the sake of posterity, to get rid of. or perhaps donate it to the Smithsonian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 How about keeping the 1st couple of pages with the remainder going to the archives? I know that's more work, but it might be better. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr1 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 ditch the past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 How about keeping the 1st couple of pages with the remainder going to the archives? I know that's more work, but it might be better. Just a thought. Agreed---IF it doesn't involve too much extra work. If it does, trash the whole damn thing. Who cares, really? It's just mooks talking Bills here. Nothing that amounts to much, in the big picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Sounds fine to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Whatever you do, don't change things up like the Hockey's Future boards did. They're all but un-usable now... http://hfboards.mandatory.com/forums/buffalo-sabres.18/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRUSHx Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 ditch the pastI agree, start fresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Nothing wrong with a little housecleaning even if it is a side effect of the change. Probably the only thing that will matter to some is post count as it is a bit of a proxy for the length of time people have hung around here (Yolo being the notable exception). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRUSHx Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) I would suggest that those 4.5 million posts represent a critical historical record of the Bills' unprecedented 17-year playoff drought that we should make every effort, for the sake of posterity, to get rid of.Haha, nobody wants any of that. Toss it Edited October 6, 2017 by xRUSHx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 On second thought, there are a few threads on OTW that might be worth saving. I'm thinking of the cooking threads e.g., Sous Vide, and Pizza and the What Show to Watch Next threads have some info that would be missed. Anyway to put those in a Penseive for posterity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Sounds good. So long as I can follow a link to the Mario Williams thread for old times sake, great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 Whatever you do, don't change things up like the Hockey's Future boards did. They're all but un-usable now... http://hfboards.mandatory.com/forums/buffalo-sabres.18/ That site will give you herpes. You should be talking about the Sabres on SabreSpace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFlutie Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Well, it is a message board, so useful information tends to be current topics of discussion, which are newly created threads. When there's a current topic that happened to be discussed in a very old thread, I'd say 90% of the time people are just creating a new thread anyway. Is migrating only the structure and usernames cheaper/easier? If that's the case, I think it's a no-brainer- especially if there's an archive. Also, think of the usability of the boards with fresh content. Less volume of content makes searching for older threads easier, and may encourage users to do that more often, rather than create duplicates. By the time the board fills back up, perhaps users will have adopted better habits. How about keeping the 1st couple of pages with the remainder going to the archives? I know that's more work, but it might be better. Just a thought. Agreed---IF it doesn't involve too much extra work. If it does, trash the whole damn thing. Who cares, really? It's just mooks talking Bills here. Nothing that amounts to much, in the big picture. Typically with things like data migrations, the effort involved is the planning of the migration, not so much the volume of data being moved. That's usually easy to scale. So I imagine, from an effort standpoint, if he keeps any old posts, it's just as much of a hassle as keeping all of them. Edited October 6, 2017 by BringBackFlutie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Well, it is a message board, so useful information tends to be current topics of discussion, which are newly created threads. When there's a current topic that happened to be discussed in a very old thread, I'd say 90% of the time people are just creating a new thread anyway. Is migrating only the structure and usernames cheaper/easier? If that's the case, I think it's a no-brainer- especially if there's an archive. Also, think of the usability of the boards with fresh content. Less volume of content makes searching for older threads easier, and may encourage users to do that more often, rather than create duplicates. By the time the board fills back up, perhaps users will have adopted better habits. Typically with things like data migrations, the effort involved is the planning of the migration, not so much the volume of data being moved. That's usually easy to scale. So I imagine, from an effort standpoint, if he keeps any old posts, it's just as much of a hassle as keeping all of them. Planning migrations? Who does that. Back it up and wing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 That site will give you herpes. It is butt ugly, that's for sure. Typically with things like data migrations, the effort involved is the planning of the migration, not so much the volume of data being moved. That's usually easy to scale. So I imagine, from an effort standpoint, if he keeps any old posts, it's just as much of a hassle as keeping all of them. That's what I figured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp000085 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Can we at least save the Retatta recipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 Whatever you do, don't change things up like the Hockey's Future boards did. They're all but un-usable now... http://hfboards.mandatory.com/forums/buffalo-sabres.18/ Despite the inevitable STD, what is unusable about them? Because I am almost certain to use the same software. (It almost appears as though they are using the beta-software that is out now. I'm not sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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