Old links will continue to work, right? Including links in posts linking other posts (that now link to the original forum)
Feb 21, 2023, 13:27 by openstreet...@firefishy.com: > Hi OSM Talk, > > In the near future we will be moving the old forum.osm.org content to > community.openstreetmap.org > > If you used the old forum, please login to the test import site > https://forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org/ to check your old posts. > > The imported content is at the bottom half of the test import site. > The database snapshot used for the test is from 02 Feb 2023. > > The old forum has 847000+ posts by 35000+ users in 91 categories. The > longest thread has 14700+ posts! > The old forum used fluxbb bbcode markdown, while > community.openstreetmap.org uses discourse's flavour of markdown. > The import markdown conversion can never be 100%, but it now appears > to have reached "good enough". > > We heavily extended the original fluxbb discourse importer with > additional features: > * Significantly improved fluxbb bbcode -> discourse markdown > converter, including fixes. > * Added Permalink support (To test for now use old forum url path + > parameters on forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org) > * OSM specific old forum to community account merging allowing > seamless login using osm.org account oauth flow. > * Added unit tests > > We are trying to contribute the improvements upstream where appropriate. > > There will also be a few tasks the forum governance team will be > responsible for post final import, notably: > * Manually merge duplicate categories (eg: country categories) > * Mark old abandoned categories as read-only. > * Manually merge duplicate users where the importer did not > automatically merge (very limited cases). > > Big thank you to Harry Wood, Tom Hughes and others who have helped > write code, fix bugs or assisted in other ways. > > Kind regards, > > Grant > Part of the OpenStreetMap Ops Team > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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