What can I say… It works! It really works! I am absolutely thrilled! It took a while, but it was worth the wait! Many thanks to everyone involved from me too! Thanks also for the fact that the impatience of many, including me, was rewarded! Now the pendulum of the mapper and forum user is swinging normally again! Great!
I think what @Firefishy meant in the notice is that all the exact duplicates are merged - there are still some (like those you mention) on the list of merges to do.
Presumably that will affect people who’ve previously bookmarked a page rather than a post in the old forum? I’m sure that people have done that, but wouldn’t the best approach here be simply to document it as a known issue and move on (perhaps as an FAQ, if it is even “frequent”)? The job that’s been done here to migrate the old content to the new forum is better than I ever would have expected (or had any right to expect); at some point we have to let people move on to develop all the other new things that people are asking for
I’ve noticed that some permalinks for some users profiles /profile.php?id= where not created. It was an edge case in the user merge process. Unfortunate, but not a critical issue which would justify me investing time to fix. Sorry.
I have just noticed that even my old browser bookmark leading directly to the german community page in the old forum now takes me directly to the german community page here (and not only to the standard start page) … … that means anyone having been absent for the past 12 month an now returning with an old bookmark will touch down directly in his/her community page here and … … WTF has happened to the forum?!?