I thought I would post this thread so people could ask questions about the forum merge or make comments. I expect that it will take a few days to complete the merge and move all the content over to the new box, and hopefully it will go smoothly. Iron_Forge is the brainiac that wrote the scripts to perform the merge, so any technical questions can probably best be answered by him.
Well it's not like we're releasing everything. But I am glad we can sort of help people understand. This is certainly a bold move, and can only go 2 ways. Up, or down. I am however confident in Grenadiac's choice, and support it fully. (Better than the NT server eh Gren? )
It always seemed like the community was always just hanging out at one forum or another, so I think it's a great idea to merge the two of them. But I have a question... will we have to make new accounts, or will we keep one of our old ones? If so, which old one do we get to keep? Good luck on the situation guys.
Iron_Forge wrote:If you have an account on both forums, with the same username, and the password or email matches, the accounts will be merged cleanly...Otherwise, some comparisons are done to try and determine who's had the account longer, if either has become inactive, or never bothers posting to determine who wins the account name...In the end, some people just lose out, which is unfortunate but required...Whichever user loses (assuming one does), will be appended with [users] or [files] to the end of their username, depending on the forum they were from...I hope to have a script setup that will allow us post merge to still merge two accounts cleanly if a user can prove they own both accounts, and they weren't merged for one reason or another...Not sure exactly at this point how it will be done, if it'll be autonomous or some staff intervention will be required...Of course, any user who gets the suffix will be granted the ability to request a name change...I'll probably have that one be just a script they can sign into, and pick a new user name (one time change for anyone with that suffix)...
But I am glad we can sort of help people understand. This is certainly a bold move, and can only go 2 ways. Up, or down. I am however confident in Grenadiac's choice, and support it fully. (Better than the NT server eh Gren? 
Nice Choice guys!
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