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OFFICIAL Forum Merge Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:12 am
by Grenadiac
I thought I would post this thread so people could ask questions about the forum merge or make comments. I expect that it will take a few days to complete the merge and move all the content over to the new box, and hopefully it will go smoothly. Iron_Forge is the brainiac that wrote the scripts to perform the merge, so any technical questions can probably best be answered by him.
Anyway, comment away...
-Grenadiac
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:19 am
by GametagAeonFlux
I've been looking forward to this for some time now Gren, glad to hear it's finally happening. =)
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:50 am
by Morpheus
When is the snapshot being taken?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:51 am
by Geo
I can't wait to see where this goes. Good luck.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:53 am
by RaVNzCRoFT
It's about time this information was released...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:04 am
by SHOUTrvb
Well it's not like we're releasing everything.
But I am glad we can sort of help people understand. This is certainly a bold move, and can only go 2 ways. Up, or down. I am however confident in Grenadiac's choice, and support it fully. (Better than the NT server eh Gren?
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:15 am
by T1xAnton
Yeah I support this 100%...
Nice Choice guys!
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:22 am
by DarkMetal
It always seemed like the community was always just hanging out at one forum or another, so I think it's a great idea to merge the two of them. But I have a question... will we have to make new accounts, or will we keep one of our old ones? If so, which old one do we get to keep? Good luck on the situation guys.
-dm
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:29 am
by Tural
Iron_Forge wrote:If you have an account on both forums, with the same username, and the password or email matches, the accounts will be merged cleanly...Otherwise, some comparisons are done to try and determine who's had the account longer, if either has become inactive, or never bothers posting to determine who wins the account name...In the end, some people just lose out, which is unfortunate but required...Whichever user loses (assuming one does), will be appended with [users] or [files] to the end of their username, depending on the forum they were from...I hope to have a script setup that will allow us post merge to still merge two accounts cleanly if a user can prove they own both accounts, and they weren't merged for one reason or another...Not sure exactly at this point how it will be done, if it'll be autonomous or some staff intervention will be required...Of course, any user who gets the suffix will be granted the ability to request a name change...I'll probably have that one be just a script they can sign into, and pick a new user name (one time change for anyone with that suffix)...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:30 am
by JunkfoodMan
Is it ok if you post what we will and will not keep? Like ranks, Cafe etc
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:40 am
by fishface617
I'm curious to see how this will turn out...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:37 pm
by Hawaiian Modder
I'm hoping I made my files account before this one.
Also will emblems be removed?
Last question. Are we gonna now have an overload of noobs?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:42 pm
by T1xAnton
I hope we don't get an overload of new users...*noobs*
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:43 pm
by Tural
This is files.
Any forum mods are subject to change.
Not much more so than there is now.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:51 pm
by Geo
I hope not every forum will be moved from the users board, 'cos my scrollin finger is gonna die.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:54 pm
by Hawaiian Modder
Tural I know this is the files forum, I'm saying that I don't want my User forums user to over ride this one. That would suck.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:55 pm
by Hawaiian Modder
Didn't mean to double post, I just found the error in my first post. Sorry for the confusion.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:56 pm
by SHOUTrvb
Hawaiian Modder wrote:Also will emblems be removed?
Actually, I'm curious about that myself.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:59 pm
by Geo
I hope I_F visits to clarify some things.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:59 pm
by T1xAnton
Maybe emblems will be totally revamped? New ones? etc? Either way we dont really need them do we?