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  • The forums are up again! Migration to new forum platform

Also, at least on Reddit, the most upvoted post usually ends up being a joke or the incorrect answer.

I usually will "like" a picture of a cat (because I like cats), regardless of the post's content.

cybereality It appears that old forum links are not redirected to the new threads. This is not a high priority, but it's fixable. I had to do that once for a PHPBB forum, let me know if you need help with that as well.

Coming from a search engine looking for answers, it gives the impression that the forum is offline/dead. The only reason I know to go to the front page and copy-paste the thread title into a forum search is because I'm aware of what happened here.

The first day I was clicking on broken links, I thought the forum was temporarily down again. All those search engine results have the resemblance of being inaccessible and lost.

EDIT: Fixed the quote. This new software is overwhelmingly modern for me to navigate comfortably.

    Yes, I know. I believe I can fix it, but there is a lot going on right now. We have all the data backed up, so it's just a matter of writing the scripts. I will speak with the admins about it.

      cybereality ...there is a lot going on right now

      I believe it! Just FYI from a user perspective. I can find things just fine in the meantime.

        Yeah, we are working on redirects. Right now, I am thinking the easiest and best solution is to have a rewrite rule in the forum's .htaccess file, but getting it right is going to be tricky. For example, we need something like this:

        But to convert URLs from:

        • https://godotforums.org/discussion/<ID>/<Topic Name>
          To the following:
        • https://godotforums.org/d/<ID>-<Topic Name>

        If anyone has experience and/or ideas on how to do this, please comment! I am going to do my best to get it working, but I'm not very experienced in this kind of thing 😅

        I used to be knowledgeable on that subject, but it's been a long time. I'll make an attempt at it if someone else doesn't do it first.

        Seems like the new forum software brought in some new users. Still not a huge amount of activity compared to some other places like Reddit, but I feel like it's growing. Definitely seems to load a whole lot faster and it's easier to read.

        Don't forget to upload avatars, people. I never remember anyone's name, I just look at the picture.

        Old forum links should be working now! Please give them a try and let me know if it works.

        (I purged the cache, but your browser may also keep a cache for the forums - so please give it a little bit if it is not working to clear the cache)

        Edit: Now I am going to be looking at the email issue that is causing some users not to get their password reset emails.

        Just as a heads up for everyone: I am changing the forum email - now instead of being noreply@godotforums.org it will be GodotForums@gmail.com. This should, I believe, fix the issue where emails are not sending to certain email addresses. I was going to just try and change the email settings for the noreply email address, but my server provider doesn't allow the settings to be changed that I can find on the server settings and via search engine results.

        Yeah, I also lost the amazing post count next to my name, but I guess my words can speak for themselves.

          Guess we'll just have to collect those accepted 'best answers' score now...sadly it doesn't include the past accepted answers.

          I think it's a better score system. Cause you're not getting points for posting jokes. They are legit answers to support questions, which I guess is the intention of having a developer forum.

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          • Post #59

          TwistedTwigleg
          Hey i would like the original spelling of my username or if spaces don't work then go with Pascal case.

              [deleted] Done! Spaces are not allowed in usernames in Flarum, so I modified your username to use PascalCase.