Can't we get the old forum up again?

dsglk · January 22, 2025, 9:33pm

Hi Team,

First off i gotta say yall are doing the God’s work keeping this community alive. Thanks for that.

I used to get so much of help from the old forum cod4x had and ever since we moved to a new forum i guess we have missed a lot from the old posts of what it used to have. it was super informative.

Can’t we get the old forum back up again? or maybe move all the posts which it had to this one?

SMiLeY · February 3, 2025, 8:01pm

You used to be able to still access it here

It was very very slow but the info was still there. I just tried again and the front page come up very very briefly, but after that could see nothing anymore. Agree with you because there was so much information on there that we could go back and check again.

I dont think to make any transfer as such now is possible. It has been so long.

proximity77 · February 3, 2025, 9:22pm

There was discussion of this coming back online a while ago and I think it just got abandoned because we thought others did not use it any more. I’ve reached out to the right person to see what can be done.

I do know you the old forums wont be back to “normal” but we can probably get them back online to that old link @SMiLeY mentioned.

st0rm · February 4, 2025, 1:18am

Why not just import all the old posts / users to this one?

AlexC · February 4, 2025, 6:43am

Because it’s not possibe

dsglk · February 5, 2025, 8:15am

@SMiLeY Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately it just loads up the home page and clicking on anything shows up a 500 Page Error

st0rm · February 5, 2025, 11:27pm

Here is the import script for Invision forum. There are two not sure which version the old forum was on.

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/main/script/import_scripts/ipboard.rb

# coding: utf-8
# frozen_string_literal: true

require "mysql2"
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/base.rb")
require "htmlentities"
begin
  require "reverse_markdown" # https://github.com/jqr/php-serialize
rescue LoadError
  puts
  puts "reverse_markdown not found."
  puts "Add to Gemfile, like this: "
  puts
  puts "echo gem \\'reverse_markdown\\' >> Gemfile"
  puts "bundle install"
  exit
end

# Before running this script, paste these lines into your shell,
# then use arrow keys to edit the values

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github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/main/script/import_scripts/ipboard3.rb

# frozen_string_literal: true

require "mysql2"
require "reverse_markdown"
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/base.rb")

class ImportScripts::IPBoard3 < ImportScripts::Base
  BATCH_SIZE = 5000
  UPLOADS_DIR = "/path/to/uploads"

  def initialize
    super

    @client =
      Mysql2::Client.new(
        host: ENV["DB_HOST"] || "localhost",
        username: ENV["DB_USER"] || "root",
        password: ENV["DB_PW"],
        database: ENV["DB_NAME"],
      )

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AlexC · February 6, 2025, 6:25am

The only thing this will mess up the current forum, and I really don’t want to nuke it if not necessary.
As I said, if someone missing something on the old forum, just ask again…
Maybe I will come up with a docker container for it, which runs an old version of php at some point, but not now. We have most people around from the old forum and now on Discord too, so chances they still know the answers what people asked back then, is really high.