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The forums are up again! Migration to new forum platform

cybereality

Also, at least on Reddit, the most upvoted post usually ends up being a joke or the incorrect answer.

DaveTheCoder

I usually will "like" a picture of a cat (because I like cats), regardless of the post's content.

Wolfe

cybereality It appears that old forum links are not redirected to the new threads. This is not a high priority, but it's fixable. I had to do that once for a PHPBB forum, let me know if you need help with that as well.

Coming from a search engine looking for answers, it gives the impression that the forum is offline/dead. The only reason I know to go to the front page and copy-paste the thread title into a forum search is because I'm aware of what happened here.

The first day I was clicking on broken links, I thought the forum was temporarily down again. All those search engine results have the resemblance of being inaccessible and lost.

EDIT: Fixed the quote. This new software is overwhelmingly modern for me to navigate comfortably.

cybereality

Yes, I know. I believe I can fix it, but there is a lot going on right now. We have all the data backed up, so it's just a matter of writing the scripts. I will speak with the admins about it.

Wolfe

cybereality ...there is a lot going on right now

I believe it! Just FYI from a user perspective. I can find things just fine in the meantime.

TwistedTwigleg

Yeah, we are working on redirects. Right now, I am thinking the easiest and best solution is to have a rewrite rule in the forum's .htaccess file, but getting it right is going to be tricky. For example, we need something like this:

https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/301-redirect-query-string/

But to convert URLs from:

https://godotforums.org/discussion/<ID>/<Topic Name>
To the following:
https://godotforums.org/d/<ID>-<Topic Name>

If anyone has experience and/or ideas on how to do this, please comment! I am going to do my best to get it working, but I'm not very experienced in this kind of thing 😅

DaveTheCoder

I used to be knowledgeable on that subject, but it's been a long time. I'll make an attempt at it if someone else doesn't do it first.

TwistedTwigleg

I think maybe this link will be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34695691/htaccess-from-old-forum-url-to-new-one

Will have to try this weekend 🙂

cybereality

Seems like the new forum software brought in some new users. Still not a huge amount of activity compared to some other places like Reddit, but I feel like it's growing. Definitely seems to load a whole lot faster and it's easier to read.

dotted

Nice to see the new digs!

cybereality

Don't forget to upload avatars, people. I never remember anyone's name, I just look at the picture.

TwistedTwigleg

Old forum links should be working now! Please give them a try and let me know if it works.

(I purged the cache, but your browser may also keep a cache for the forums - so please give it a little bit if it is not working to clear the cache)

Edit: Now I am going to be looking at the email issue that is causing some users not to get their password reset emails.

TwistedTwigleg

Just as a heads up for everyone: I am changing the forum email - now instead of being noreply@godotforums.org it will be GodotForums@gmail.com. This should, I believe, fix the issue where emails are not sending to certain email addresses. I was going to just try and change the email settings for the noreply email address, but my server provider doesn't allow the settings to be changed that I can find on the server settings and via search engine results.

nitrogamestudios

So We all lost the badges!!!!

cybereality

Yeah, I also lost the amazing post count next to my name, but I guess my words can speak for themselves.

TwistedTwigleg

cybereality now they just need to visit your profile to see your 5545 (currently) post count 😎

Megalomaniak

Guess we'll just have to collect those accepted 'best answers' score now...sadly it doesn't include the past accepted answers.

cybereality

I think it's a better score system. Cause you're not getting points for posting jokes. They are legit answers to support questions, which I guess is the intention of having a developer forum.

OctoPatty

TwistedTwigleg
Hey i would like the original spelling of my username or if spaces don't work then go with Pascal case.

TwistedTwigleg

OctoPatty Done! Spaces are not allowed in usernames in Flarum, so I modified your username to use PascalCase.

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