VaBeach_Guy

If it's something that I can manually adjust (the ranks), that might be easier. Some may want to keep it as is, while some may want it adjusted.

Rebuilding will also rebuild things like post count and reputation, right? That would create bigger issues for me. My board was originally owned by an NFL team. In 2020, they decided that they didn't want to pay for it anymore (after 20 to 25 years in existence). So we members branched off and re-created the board. Since most of the members had decades of post count and reputation built up, I manually added all of their old stats to the new board. So if rebuilding also re-adjusts all of those numbers, I'd be in a world of hurt lol.

Just trying to learn a new system, read about the 'rules' and such. My members aren't crazy about it. We'll get used to it, but nobody likes change lol. The upgrade turned everyone into 'newbies', so they're wondering what's going on there. Someone with 150,000 posts has the same rank as someone with 4 or 5 posts lol. I just have to figure out what determines rank, and maybe manually adjust everyone accordingly.

Kind of along the same lines as this, is there a way to show the exact number of posts as opposed to a rounded off number. I know it will show when you hover over it, but we want the full number to show if possible.

I just upgraded, and this system of rules and points, gives me a headache.

I found what I'd read: It's when I try to unarchive an individual thread, I get that message. I archived it in a place where I don't want it, so I was going to unarchive it to move it into the correct place. Not a real big deal, but I'd rather have it in its proper place.

Thanks, my concern was that maybe something may have changed and unarchiving wouldn't be possible after the upgrade. If I do unarchive, those posts can't be re-archived in the future? I believe I saw that somewhere.

It only happens on select topics that have grown to a large size or on topics that are experiencing a lot of simultaneous activity (during an NFL game, for instance). Looking at what's going on in the moment, on the server, I don't seen any spikes or unusual activity to indicate a strain on the server. Of course, I'm no expert on such things so I could be seeing something and not understand what it's telling me. Archiving (almost 700,000 posts), alleviated the issue but created this new (to us) issue. Unarchiving may be the only solution. I'm about to upgrade from 4.4.10 to the latest edition. If I upgrade before unarchiving (if that's my choice), should I do it before the upgrade? Would the upgrade prevent me from unarchiving after the upgrade is done?

If I may jump into the conversation (on my own behalf), my site isn't 'huge' (1.2+ Million posts, almost 1700 members). It's a board for an NFL team, so we do get a good bit of activity, especially on gameday, draft day and so on. Some threads begin to move very slowly when there's 500 to 1,000 people viewing/posting on it at one time or when the thread grows to a couple thousand pages. So I enabled archiving to ease the stress on the database. Now, the archived posts can't be searched, and people want to search for old posts/topics. I hadn't realized (initially), that searching wouldn't work or that it would pose a problem. If there's a better solution to this, I'd be grateful to learn of it.

This topic is along the lines of a question I have, though not entirely. Is there a way for members to actually search archived posts to reference old conversations and such? Is there a good solution for that?

Ok, thanks. Am I correct about my workaround? I should be able to make individual posts, alter them, then merge them into one thread and when all is said and done, I'll have the end results that I ultimately want.

I have a question about functionality. From the description: That specifies 'topic author', does that mean that only the thread starter can be changed or can each and every post starter be changed? I'm wanting to re-create a thread from 5 years ago (which I have locally archived), from a now dead board. So I want to re-post each and every post and change it's date, time and poster to what the original thread was. If it's only for the topic starter and not for each individual poster, I suppose I could do a workaround where I post each post as its own thread, change the data then merge them all into one thread.

Any progress on this, we can't get it to embed either and we're looking for a solution.

Thanks, once my upgrade is complete, I'll begin work on my project.

I see that these say that they're compatible with 4.7, I assume that includes sub-revisions (4.7.6 and so on)? All these months later, I'm (hopefully) going to be able to begin on my project soon.

Thanks, I may end up using both of them, if they will achieve the final results that I want. Which is being able to re-create those threads, giving each post the proper poster and date/time (which was actually a little over 3 years before our new board was created).

That looks like it may be my easiest (and only) solution. With the changing of the posting dates, does that include the time as well as the date?

No, I tried to get the franchise to give me the database of the old board, but 'legal' wouldn't allow it due to 'privacy' issues. Even if they deleted all members first, they still wouldn't do it. But that was right as Covid was breaking out and they had other things to deal with. I remember years (and years) ago, being able to alter the date/time stamp and even member numbers, using MyPHPAdmin, so I was hoping that there may be a way to do it there. If I were to copy and paste each post manually, where every post is made by me, is there a way to go into the database and alter each post to reflect a different time/date and poster? That would be very time consuming, but something that I'm willing to undertake, if it's possible.

I'm not sure if this can be done, or how if it can be. But let me explain... I was a longtime member of the Philadelphia Eagles official message board (20+ years). In 2020, the Eagles decided to do away with their board in favor of Reddit (supposedly). Many of the members and I decided to re-create the board and run it ourselves. Which we've been doing since April 20, 2020 (we're closing in on 1,000,000 posts within the next month or so). On the old, official board, there were a few threads that were important to the community (or at least to me and a few others). Mainly, threads relating to Super Bowl LII. Before the old board went black (they gave us 2 weeks notice of the impending doom), I archived as much of the board as I could (via Archive.org). I also locally archived a few of the more 'important' threads to my hard drive using HTTrack. So I have archived copies of a few threads that are available to me and I even converted one of them into a standalone webpage, so that it can be read (the Super Bowl LII Gameday Thread). So my question is this... is there any way of 'importing' those archived threads into our new database? If not, is there a way that I could 're-create' those threads in the database manually and attributing each post to the correct original poster, and further adjusting the date stamp so that it gives the proper posting date/time of the original post? Doing it manually (if possible), would be a task and a half, but one that I could undertake over the course of time. I hope I've explained that well enough to get my goal across.

From about 2003 until last year, or maybe 2019, I used a custom portal. I got tired of having to come up with a new portal solution with each upgrade though. So now, I just use the main forum index as my homepage. Turned out that the 'portal' was only really 'important' to me and my members actually prefer the forum index.

Yeah, I had the same thing happen when I upgraded to an earlier version, and I too was astonished. I want to say that it had something to do with search functions but I don't remember exactly now.

With regard to the ignore feature, is there a way to also ignore those ignored users quotes when some other member quotes the ignored user's posts? Current, people can ignore each other but if I or someone else quotes that ignored user, the member who is ignoring the ignored member, has his/her quotes visible.

It's Adsense.

How can I block specific types of ads? Specifically, political type ads. Or can that even be done?

I tried to upgrade to 4.4.10 using 7.4 and couldn't do it. So I submitted a support ticket and was told to downgrade to PHP 7.3 because 7.4 wasn't supported for 4.4.10. It will be supported in 4.5, though. So when upgrading your php version, keep that in mind.