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Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I won't be creating an archived forum that contains all the 2001 / 2005 to 8? posts. It's gone.. forever! :'(
INSTEAD
I've done something better!
For the past 20 hours (+ 7 hours of sleep) I've been working on the forum archives non-stop. Rather than creating a separated forum with the archives; I've succeeded in to importing the archived database in to a copy of the ESF forums that I've created today. This means, that soon in the future the forums will be back in it's original state. Users (if I'm not mistaken), posts, threads.. mostly Everything will be back again. I'm saying "mostly", because there seems to be a few pages of threads which are not recoverable. But 98% (estimated) of all threads & posts are successfully restored.
^ Check the dates of the posts.
Now, as you can see in the above images things went extremely well. It went even better than I expected. You can ignore the "imported" usernames you see. I never tagged the option to merge the archived usernames with the already existing ones. I still have some testing to do to make sure everything works.
And once it does, I'll schedule a date/time to shutdown the forums as importing over 900.000 posts is taking up a lot of time. So the forums will be most likely down for a full day to make sure everything works as it is supposed to be.
INSTEAD
I've done something better!
For the past 20 hours (+ 7 hours of sleep) I've been working on the forum archives non-stop. Rather than creating a separated forum with the archives; I've succeeded in to importing the archived database in to a copy of the ESF forums that I've created today. This means, that soon in the future the forums will be back in it's original state. Users (if I'm not mistaken), posts, threads.. mostly Everything will be back again. I'm saying "mostly", because there seems to be a few pages of threads which are not recoverable. But 98% (estimated) of all threads & posts are successfully restored.
^ Check the dates of the posts.
Now, as you can see in the above images things went extremely well. It went even better than I expected. You can ignore the "imported" usernames you see. I never tagged the option to merge the archived usernames with the already existing ones. I still have some testing to do to make sure everything works.
And once it does, I'll schedule a date/time to shutdown the forums as importing over 900.000 posts is taking up a lot of time. So the forums will be most likely down for a full day to make sure everything works as it is supposed to be.
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