I have to say, I am enjoying the weekly payments from gig3.
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ooh a little bit more waffle...Comment
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and... a pali
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^^^^
He who Hingeth aboot, Getteth Hee Haw. https://forums.contractoruk.com/core...ies/smokin.gifComment
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Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice
This morning has been largely given over to new forum stuff, specifically, the whole business of preserving the original thread IDs
Luckily, it’s pretty straightforward to override the bits that need special treatment, as they built their vBulletin 5 importer as an extension to their vB4 importer. This means there are already specific methods for getting the relevant data from the database, and I just have to override and adjust them appropriately. I’ve also put together test infrastructure that lets me run parts of the importer in isolation, down to the level of individual methods. So I can create a test for the specific bit I need to modify at each stage, run it under the debugger to see exactly what’s going on in there, then make my adjustments and confirm it’s working as required
Once this is working, it’ll be the posts, the IDs of which need similar treatment in order to preserve the palis!
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Right, that’s quite enough of that for the day. Import of threads with their “correct” IDs (i.e. the ones they got in the old forum software) is now working, including important details like keeping users’ thread subscriptions pointing to the right place
I just spent absolutely ages getting confused about why the oldest threads when viewing the forums weren’t the first ones in the database table, before remembering that admin imported stuff from the previous (pre-late-2005) board, but not until a while after the original vBulletin version had launched. So the old stuff comes further down in the database but has earlier timestamps
Even once I’d worked that out, I spent a while puzzling over the fact that the oldest thread in General wasn’t showing up on here, the live site. But I haven’t got the import of posts done yet, and threads are ordered by the date of the most recent post, then by start date. As there are no posts imported, they just go by start date. And good old BrilloPad, presumably bored during lockdown, had replied to the oldest thread in 2020, thereby bumping it
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