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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois
Firstly - I have zero technical expertise in this area and should probably be ignored
Secondly - I, personally, don't place a high value on the histories of this place, the old threads from 5, 10 years ago - even though I have hung out here for 20+ years.
Wildy uninformed proposal: Just migrate user names and info to a new platform and let the users create all new threads for the topics of interest. It would seem like that would be an easier transfer than all the threads, links, pics, etc. For instance, how often do people look back to page 10 of a 30 page thread? I know I don't.
Of course, there should probably be some sort of poll to gauge whether this approach is acceptable to the users.
I'll shut my ignorant and insensitive mouth now.
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As DaFace already touched on... it's just not possible to simply migrate user names and info to a new platform. You guys underestimate what an incredibly complex undertaking something like that is. Since we're running a very old version of vBulletin, it's next to impossible to migrate the existing database to something newer without destroying who knows what and introducing countless new errors that users would then bitch constantly about.
This is just not an easy fix at all without trashing/changing most of what makes CP what it currently is.