I’m not sure if I’m always trying at the wrong time or what (tried dozen times by now at different days/times), but I am always getting the Croatia category empty (i.e. with only one autogenerated “welcome” message).
I’ve seen @ezekielf comment that new and old categories are different, but that does not seem to be a problem. I.e. on @Firefishy test instance I see:
Likely just caught it at a bad time. Over the last 72 hours I’ve had a few test import runs, the full import run takes over 20 hours. I keep resetting the test site back to the December 2022 snapshot and restarting the importer.
Test import is running again, it is at 6% completed. Import will likely finish in 22 hours from now.
vvvvv Test Import Site Link vvvvvvv
^^^^^^ Test Import Site Link ^^^^^^^
The content conversion is looking good. It isn’t a 100% conversion, but good enough considering the differences in markdown.
[code] and [quote] are now being converted correctly. Nesting seems to be working ok.
Pending:
There is only basic merging of users accounts (email based). Merging based on OpenStreetMap account UserID has not yet been implemented.
Imported categories are not merged with existing categories on community.openstreetmap.org. It is likely the categories will be manually merged after the final import.
The old forum.openstreetmap.org site and old forum content will redirect to the imported content items on community.openstreetmap.org, the import scripts has some code for creating the permalinks but it has not yet been tested and is likely to requires further work.
User Avatar image importer still needs to be implemented.
I noticed that for some users (including me), the avatar is empty, and their username has a number attached, but when people quote their postings, it’s correct:
This is because the e-mail address that was stored in the old forum does not match the e-mail address of your OSM user account. The assignment is made via the e-mail address.
I think it should help if you change or enter the e-mail address in the old forum accordingly. But not until a new, up-to-date snapshot of the old forum is used.
Yes, the user signatures are not currently imported. Discourse doesn’t support signatures from what I can see, but does support a User BIO. The importing of the signatures → Bio could be tricky.
~10% of the old forum users have signatures. At very least 50% are spam.
Import FluxBB User Signatures → Discourse User BIO
Ignore FluxBB User Signatures. Don’t Delay with Import
I agree with not importing them, especially since not many users utilized it. Whoever truly needs it, could make it into the bio on their own, since rarely it was utilized for useful info. (in general, signatures of old-style forums is a feature that imo rarely had a useful impact while visiting a forum)
I have a perplexity with the “users:” prefix. here on Discourse we have regional communities named without that prefix, and at least as far as Latin America is concerned, most of the “users:XXX” fora do not have a corresponding space on the new site, while the others have spaces with very low activity.
in my opinion, it would be much more clearly arranged if we used a single Discourse community for the Latin American users:XXX fora importation, something like users:latam, with a label corresponding to the original country name XXX.
The categories can be manually merged and tidied up post final import. I will leave the implementation to others to decide. It doesn’t need to be rushed.