Important Notice of RickResource Forum Changes

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

Experience has taught us to trust you implicitly, Peter. Bring it on.

[admin]

Mark: That is a very high standard to live up to. I will do my best.

[elysrand]

Peter, I am not asking you for any of the details of the format. But will the board remain Discus Pro? I am only asking about the software app itself.

[melibreits]

Looking forward to seeing the new look.... Thank you for all that you do, Peter!

This forum is an amazing clearinghouse of information, humor, and camraderie....and lots of great pictures, too!

[admin]

Ok, the journey toward the new RickResource Forum begins.

[gibsonlp]

I just saw this thread,
Well, now all we have to do is to wait

[elysrand]

Well now we know why Peter would not say if he was keeping Discus Pro!

[gibsonlp]

I have nothing against discus, but I had a real hell converting the old forum as everything was kept in html format.
I had to parse the html, getting out the needed parts (post message, poster, date, ip, message id, parent id (go from the archived to the last file and then back to the first file containing the very first post to be used as the parent...), forum, etc...) and put them all in an interim table.
I then had to write some more code to convert the users from the csv format exported by discus to an interim table containing the extra details as well (favorite this, favorite that, etc).
I then wrote a converter from html to bbcode and fixed attachment links and so on...
I can continue forever...

Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed every second, but I don't see how discus can be used for a forum with so many posts, there is no normal way of running a decent search on so many files.
Not to mention the fact that storing everything as raw data saves alot of space.