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<div>Old links will continue to work, right?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Including links in posts linking other posts (that now<br></div><div dir="auto">link to the original forum)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 21, 2023, 13:27 by openstreetmap@firefishy.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi OSM Talk,<br></div><div><br></div><div>In the near future we will be moving the old forum.osm.org content to<br></div><div>community.openstreetmap.org<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you used the old forum, please login to the test import site<br></div><div>https://forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org/ to check your old posts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The imported content is at the bottom half of the test import site.<br></div><div>The database snapshot used for the test is from 02 Feb 2023.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The old forum has 847000+ posts by 35000+ users in 91 categories. The<br></div><div>longest thread has 14700+ posts!<br></div><div>The old forum used fluxbb bbcode markdown, while<br></div><div>community.openstreetmap.org uses discourse's flavour of markdown.<br></div><div>The import markdown conversion can never be 100%, but it now appears<br></div><div>to have reached "good enough".<br></div><div><br></div><div>We heavily extended the original fluxbb discourse importer with<br></div><div>additional features:<br></div><div>* Significantly improved fluxbb bbcode -> discourse markdown<br></div><div>converter, including fixes.<br></div><div>* Added Permalink support (To test for now use old forum url path +<br></div><div>parameters on forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org)<br></div><div>* OSM specific old forum to community account merging allowing<br></div><div>seamless login using osm.org account oauth flow.<br></div><div>* Added unit tests<br></div><div><br></div><div>We are trying to contribute the improvements upstream where appropriate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There will also be a few tasks the forum governance team will be<br></div><div>responsible for post final import, notably:<br></div><div>* Manually merge duplicate categories (eg: country categories)<br></div><div>* Mark old abandoned categories as read-only.<br></div><div>* Manually merge duplicate users where the importer did not<br></div><div>automatically merge (very limited cases).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Big thank you to Harry Wood, Tom Hughes and others who have helped<br></div><div>write code, fix bugs or assisted in other ways.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Grant<br></div><div>Part of the OpenStreetMap Ops Team<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>talk mailing list<br></div><div>talk@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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