Forum Update/Upgrade

[TronPaul]

To be honest it should be doable to convert the old bb code to the new bb code. I'm down with helping to write some ugly sql queries.

[FlyingMongoose]

Other than what has already been reported I made a thread in there and did some in-depth-bb-code-posting and it all seems to work quite well.
Honestly I don't really think there's anything that CAN be broken (I've tried some failed SQL injection on registration pages too).

MyBB seems clean to me.

[FlyingMongoose]

So I think we won't get much more non production testing anyway. I think it's better to roll it out sooner rather than later.

Add a forum bug report sub forum

[Luinbariel]

So I think we won't get much more non production testing anyway. I think it's better to roll it out sooner rather than later.

Add a forum bug report sub forum

Busy week, give it time

[FlyingMongoose]

I understand just pointing out there's really little to no more testing necessary

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[Dtrain323i]

in the little bit of fiddling around i've done i haven't seen anything broken.

[HeK]

I've been writing a plugin that makes the needed changes to mycode so that it can parse the old smf style bb code.

• So the nested quotes from old posts did not work at all.
  
• Images with sizes wouldn't parse.
  
• URLs wouldn't work in some cases, depending on how they were entered.
  
• Almost all the old Youtube/other videos wouldn't embed.
  
• Spoiler tags didn't work.
  

That's what I have found and fixed so far.

What I won't be able to fix are the missing avatars and old links to the old forum. The URLs used in either are non-compatible.

[TronPaul]

Wouldn't it be easier to write a conversion script that converts old bbcode to new bbcode?

[FlyingMongoose]

Wouldn't it be easier to write a conversion script that converts old bbcode to new bbcode?

Probably but it sounds like he's getting pretty far anyway.

[HeK]

Wouldn't it be easier to write a conversion script that converts old bbcode to new bbcode?

Which is what I am doing, however I have to find all the instances where it differs. The SMF 'bb'code documentation isn't accurate as to how it's implemented.

[FlyingMongoose]

[quote author=TronPaul link=topic=7529.msg285691#msg285691 date=1437050827]
Wouldn't it be easier to write a conversion script that converts old bbcode to new bbcode?

Which is what I am doing, however I have to find all the instances where it differs. The SMF 'bb'code documentation isn't accurate as to how it's implemented.
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Seems like yet another good reason in an ever increasing list of reasons as to why it's a good idea to move away from SMF.

[Nitrous Oxide]

[FlyingMongoose]

appending: "Fast enough"
fixed.

[Greatbacon]

[FlyingMongoose]

It is?

[Luinbariel]

Stillllll busy

[FlyingMongoose]

Stillllll busy

I kind of figured; but at least there's a positive response so far.

[Dr. Zaius]

FEEL THE BERN

[FlyingMongoose]

By the way; for theme-ing mybb; I recommend just branching the main theme and editing that; in case things go funky on an upgrade in the future you can always revert to original this way.

[HeK]

As you can see, we have cut over to the new board.

Please post any problems here.

Yes, I realize that your avatars have been removed. That is a *feature* of the migration process. Think of it as new beginnings.