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Hi all,

My hosting company is currently installing a new forum platform. In the past few months we have been experiencing a large amount of spam on the NRF and we did not have the proper tools to fight it. After doing some research, I decided to go with Vanilla Forums, which is a very clean and intuitive solution (check it out at http://vanillaforums.org. The most difficult part in this transition will be the migration of current database (topics, usernames and passwords). I will update you as I get more information on the progress from my hosting company.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Peter

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spraynpray

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Hey, that is good news Peter.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too!

Posted 5 months ago #
msmoto

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Ah....relief at last...

Happy Holidays Peter....this must be my Christmas Present, correct?

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rschnaible

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Looking forward to the migration

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Yetibuddha

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We all know it will be a bunch of work, but thanks for looking out for NRF. And have a happy and merry Christmas and great new year!

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Thanks guys, Merry Christmas!

In the worse case scenario, we will just leave the old forum as read only for reference and will start from scratch with the new platform. It all depends on how good is the migration tool that was provided by new forum platform.

Peter

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You could do a hybrid approach. Switch over to the new platform, keep the old site frozen and then take your time to figure out how to import the content. Also the search function can span both platforms so you won't have to look in both places. You can PM me if you want as I do this sort of thing for a living :-}

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Ironheart said:
You could do a hybrid approach. Switch over to the new platform, keep the old site frozen and then take your time to figure out how to import the content. Also the search function can span both platforms so you won't have to look in both places. You can PM me if you want as I do this sort of thing for a living :-}

I think this is what we will do - we ran into several problems. The drawback is that you will have to register again.

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The new forum is now live at http://forum.nikonrumors.com/. There are still several issues that must be addressed, but I believe the basic functionality is now working. If you are brave enough, go ahead and register. We ran into several issues when importing the data and I could not transfer all logins and passwords, unfortunately you will have to register again.

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spraynpray

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Well peter, I signed up, but can't see yet how I start a new thread....

Any tips?

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Ironheart

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"Start a new discussion" on the right hand side

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PB PM

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Signed up, and logged in but cannot post comments (replay or new). I also have to re-login every time I hit the forum button, rather than the forms navigation buttons.

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The re-login issue is fixed. Once you are logged in, there is a "start new thread" button on the right.

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The new Nikon Rumors Forum is now live at http://forum.nikonrumors.com/discussions. This forum is now in "read only" mode until I figure a proper way to import all data over to the new platform. Please register over at the new forum.

New forum platform coming soon

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