Sad to know the old forum data is lost August 24, 2008, 11:19:38 am Hello friends,Its sad to know that the old forum data could not be used with the new forum... (I lost my account too, but on re-registering I now know, all of you have joined again!)Anyway I'm glad this forum is at least up and continues to be the center point for Simutrans.Good luck! Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #1 – August 24, 2008, 12:20:59 pm Fortunately, the data isn't lost. Timothy made a complete backup of it. You can acces to all stuff in archive.forum.simutrans.com Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #2 – August 24, 2008, 04:12:11 pm Oh then why is the forum looking all new then? Just curious to know! Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #3 – August 24, 2008, 04:28:31 pm Timothy wrote a script that simplifies the old forum, since it only has to display static pages now. This way, the archived version of the forum takes a lot less space. Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #4 – August 24, 2008, 05:14:46 pm Quote from: Lmallet – on August 24, 2008, 04:28:31 pma lot less space.More important: less traffic (harddisk space was never an issue). Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #5 – August 24, 2008, 07:07:26 pm That too Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #6 – August 25, 2008, 08:47:11 am The archive idea is good to reduce the traffic with static pages. It seems strange to see a forum start over all again, which we have been accustomed to all these days! Nevertheless the admins and Timothy did a remarkable job! Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #7 – August 25, 2008, 10:50:17 am Oh well, it's not that someone just to decided "oh let's just start over again" It had to be done, and Isaac, Hellmade and Timothy tried to get to the best solution under the given circumstances. And, as you said: they did a good job at that. Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #8 – August 25, 2008, 02:18:43 pm Also the old forum could not be backuped. Thus, sooner or later a loss would have come anyway ... Quote Selected
Re: Sad to know the old forum data is lost Reply #9 – August 25, 2008, 02:38:21 pm Yes indeed, Isaac had not been able to make a backup of the old forum for some months (and thus it would've been impossible to move to a new server), making a static archive was the only option, sadly the lack of time meant that this had to be done in quite a quick manner. Quote Selected
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