CEN-CAL17 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Start fresh. Personally whatever is easiest for the upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figster Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Start fresh. Personally whatever is easiest for the upgrade. Poetic Justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbosrrgood Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) I'm scared! In all seriousness I would very much miss the shoutbox. I have met several Bills fans in person due mostly to the conversations that have taken place there. I and obviously others have been using it for many years. Edited October 6, 2017 by Turbosrrgood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Arnold Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Can I request a 'like' function and alerts for when we have posts quoted/responded to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I made a backup of my Avatar. Drop table TBD; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy 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? Â That would mean every forum would start fresh, but there would be a link to the old archives. Â Any opinions? Scott: Â Maybe retention of all 4.5 million is not feasible. Perhaps you could pick a reasonable point of retention, say the last five years and delete everything else prior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasons1992 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. Â This. Plus the zero post reset is fine with me. Whatever makes it easier for the Mods, SDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEra Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Â These suggestions are not practical. I'm not fielding requests to import individual threads. Sorry Scott. I should've mentioned I was just kidding while bringing back some nostalgia Can I request a 'like' function and alerts for when we have posts quoted/responded to? This would be a great and much needed addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Happy to leave in your capable hands SDS. Whatever you think is best. When is the upgrade happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood 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? Â That would mean every forum would start fresh, but there would be a link to the old archives. Â Any opinions? I love it. Â We can restart all the classics from scratch as if they never happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Dump it all! Â And if post counts get re-set, who the hell gives a crap other than maybe 12 year olds... Â Most threads here are all about dates, not topics really. Â I have often thought time/date would be a better way to classify content than topic. It's all about what's going on TODAY. This is why so many weak threads have long life and remain active for 30 pages when they should have been dead after a few comments... Most people do not start a new thread; they come on TODAY to see what's going on NOW. They look at what is available to choose from, and go with what is on offer... Â Most interest in something like a football team is very date-oriented. How many threads speculating about X and Y from August remain relevant? Pretty much none, other than when one poster wants to retrieve old posts to use as fodder attacking some other poster regarding what he speculated on back in August. Â Burn it all and start fresh. No one will miss any of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Whatever is better for you SDS works for me. This is a great forum to say the least , many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Worst case with an empty database we could just ask Tom what somebody said during week 7 if the 2011 season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 aww I dont want to lose my post count! Â Â Â CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathcliff Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Flush it - It's a new day and year (and process). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I love it. Â We can restart all the classics from scratch as if they never happened! Â ...or have a CLASSIC POSTS FORUM archive for anything that is before, let's say 2012 (pick a year)............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) I would vote to drop them all. Should we keep the join date or post count? Some people like those numbers Edited October 6, 2017 by Fan in San Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpleman Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) If you truly want a sleeker and speedier BB, how about also stopping putting posts about similar subjects into unmanageable mega threads. 50 pages is too long a thread to easily follow. Smaller threads are faster on the system end and a whole lot easy for the user to navigate, especially with devices like smartphones. And unless it has an automatic and intuitive search engine, finding older posts beyond a couple of pages is a real pain. What was said preseason or more than a month old is old news anyway. If the topic hasn't been discussed in the last couple of pages, it is old news and probably already irrelevant to the current situations. Keep it simple and fresh! Edited October 6, 2017 by simpleman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Direhard Fan Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Off- Off and away it goes. Good idea. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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