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For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to join us.
For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to join us.
For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to join us.
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Everything about vanilla strikes me as the worst way to design a forum.
It makes a whole lot of sense if you're selling forums as a monthly software package though, because you need to keep getting those payments to keep things working.
I kinda hope a lot of current mods are retained to CR if only for the reason that I think they'll really appreciate the new UX by comparison
You can't quit until I show you how awesome this new workers lounge is!
Have you seen the sofas? They're real corinthian leather....
MHWilds ID: JF9LL8L3
It was always a weird situation because the PA Forum Vanilla is basically Vanilla that has been heavily modified and frankensteined to act like vBB. And from what I remember, it was basically an agreement between PAcorp and Vanilla that Vanilla got to use this community as a live production testbed in exchange for a lower fee or whatever, so in addition to being a more difficult branch of their code to maintain, we were/are also not exactly a profit center for Vanilla, so once Icy was gone the forum no longer got any actual Vanilla code support and just started drifting through the stars.
edit: what Hahnsoo said, basically
A lot of those are also still weirdly modular. I can't remember if it was you or another that talked about how DM/PMs were extra.
I mean, that is very real.
Also... possibly not the thread you thought you were posting in?
@Delzhand Did you ever get the code to scrape badges or whatever? If not, what exactly are you looking for out of that screenshot Bowen posted?
Clarification: Is that Public-when-you-register proviso relevant for all migrated user content, such as join dates, etc., not just Badgers?
Title/Location: migrated, user editable
Join Date: migrated, not currently editable
Legacy Badgers/Post Count: migrated, admin/moderator editable
Reaction Score: currently bugged - I discovered that XF actively recalculates your score, so while it might get migrated it gets stomped on pretty fast
Avatar: not migrated (too much of a hassle, sorry, and setting up an avatar is like the first thing the beta users tended to do anyway)
This is subject to change, but at some point prior to open registration I'll lock it down.
I've done approximately 500% more web development and scraping/integration/parsing than I have done the past 20 years of my professional career combined, even at work I'm doing loads of it for some reason suddenly. (we're not really a web shop)
The total timeline is available here:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/252904/coin-return-a-progress-bar-and-timeline
This is probably the part you're most interested in:
Move in Day for the New Forums - We plan to open the doors and begin letting folks move over to the brand new Coin Return Forums at least a couple of months before the lights go out on the PA forums. We'll need time to ensure all users who want to claim their username on the new forum can be properly authenticated, and there are bound to be some initial hiccups as we onboard hundreds, or potentially thousands of users. We do not want to cut this too close. For this reason we hope to start this by late March.
It would be a technical impossibility, since the system relies on pulling that info from our Vanilla database here on PA. Once that’s offline, the door is shut to any automated process.
The only possible arrangement might be (and this is not something heavily discussed or finalized, purely hypothetical) allowing people to claim old PA usernames if they can be positively vouched for by (multiple?) other members who know them. But even if we did that it would be a manual case-by-case arrangement, and there would be no way to retrieve their post counts, badges, join date, etc. — just the user name itself.