Hi Folks,
While I've been taking some time away from the day to day running of the network, I've spent some time working with the development team at Woltlab to look to identify a solid way we can migrate the Flarum forums over to Woltlab, the forum suite we started to explore around a year ago.
As part of this I've stood up a new temporary test forum which contains a dump of the data from this forum from last week which has been imported in. The forum itself is not fully configured, and is running a bare-bones configuration on a fairly aggressive security lockdown so there will be naturally some bits that don't quite work as they should, for the purposes of this please ignore anything that is not thread content.
There are some things that haven't imported, the main one being avatars and polls that I'm aware of. In both cases we won't be looking to migrate these.
We are also aware of a few issues we're working through.
Imported Code Blocks are a bit broken- Spoilers won't be imported, they might land as Code blocks or nothing but there's syntax issues
- For security we block all image embedding, so external images are currently blocked, that's part of forum config
- BBCode doesn't import properly (This has been resolved in the newer version of the importer we haven't yet ran)
So I'd like folks to take a quick look where they can at their historic posts, and let me know if there's anything that is obviously broken with the formatting please and if so report it to the new feedback section under "Woltlab Pilot" on the left hand side.
You should all be able to login with your existing credentials, I should warn these test forums might get blown away with 0 warning and are for testing, so I've done what I can to disable posting and the likes, and if it's abused I'll simply kill them.
The following boards have been "Migrated" which I hope to have a good spread of threads and content.
- General (With Introductions, Support, General Discussion, Security, Off Topic and Media Board)
- Suggestions (With Freedom Game-Mode)
- Applications (Admin Applications & Senior Admin Applications)
- Admins (With Indefinite Ban Requests)
If there are other boards folks feel would be valuable from a content testing perspective then let me know and we'll get it setup.
The current test URL is https://woltlab-test.totalfreedom.me which should let existing Flarum users sign in and read-only into the boards.
Any other issues / feedback please use the board mentioned above.