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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on February 06, 2012, 02:47:17 am
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If you visit the member list (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=posts;start=0) page or scroll down the front page, you will notice that certain members such as Kalan_vod and Spellshaper mysteriously jumped several ranks up among the top posters and, in the process, stole other people's spot, making them go down. Thanks to the restoration of all the 56000 posts from the previous Omnimaga sites (http://ourl.ca/15110), all post counts of current members who also had an account on either the Invisionfree (http://z9.invisionfree.com/omnimaga/index.php?act=idx) or Zetaboards (http://s1.zetaboards.com/omnimaga/index/) sites were merged together!
When this SMF board started in August 2008, the plan was that as soon as the old board was restored by the Invisionfree team, there was going to be a one-time-event where anybody from the old boards who would re-register here would see their post counts combined together. 54 member accounts (everyone who had at least one post on two Omnimaga sites and still has an account today, regardless of activity) were affected by the changes:
AaroneusTheGreat 270
adriweb 463
Agent84 84
alex10819 6
arglactable 48
art_of_camelot 2931
bfr 945
brandonw 99
calc84maniac 2322
christop 61
Dantes 234
darkfire 20
Deeph 67
dinhotheone 431
DJ_O 43722
fourchanb 84
Fryedsoft 94
Goplat 271
Halifax 1408
Iambian 610
JincS 206
Jon 291
JonimusPrime 416
JoostinOnline 44
Josephmarin 219
kalan_vod 2997
KermMartian 333
Lachprog 28
Lionel Debroux 988
lolje 322
lordofthegeeks 246
Madskillz 488
magicdanw 7
mdjenkins86 248
MegaSasquatch 55
merthsoft 167
MSR5 59
necro 1502
Netham45 2082
nitacku 300
Nyrax 1311
Ranman 1242
rcfreak0 117
rivereye 1250
simplethinker 728
SourceCoder2 10
Spellshaper 2003
Speler 956
tifreak 2756
tr1p1ea 159
trevmeister66 1068
uberspire 95
Zera 742
{AP} 984
I scanned through the old member lists for duplicate accounts then added post counts together. Since I am no longer Omnimaga administrator, I sent the list of members and post counts to update to Juju, then he did the admin-side part of the job.
Note, however, that there were never any plan to re-do this in the future, so if you had an account on the old boards but decide to register here tonight, it is already too late for your post count to be updated. Also, the merged post counts do not include spam (although they include old intro posts).
In the future, there is a possibility that the old boards will be converted into one SMF board, either as a standalone archive or as part of the current site, so that it is possible to search old posts more reliably. A merge with the current site is less likely, though, because SMF sorts topics and replies by ID rather than date, and updating the current board IDs would break even more links than if the old IDs were updated instead.
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Nice :)
I'm also starting to wish I made an account back then (to beat Adriweb) :P
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Aw my 10th place D:
/me goes regain it in a month flat.
And I think merging the old boards with this one, like DJ said, is unlikely, but putting everything on the same SMF board might be a good idea for archive purposes. The rest of the details is at the admins' discretion.
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Ohey, now I can post in the 2000+ posters thread!
Too bad it doesn't include spam, else I'd be pushing 3000.
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Very nice! Thanks for the time you guys put in. =)
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Ohey, now I can post in the 2000+ posters thread!
Too bad it doesn't include spam, else I'd be pushing 3000.
Yeah, I remember this (http://z9.invisionfree.com/omnimaga/index.php?showtopic=93&st=3435). (it spans from page 239 to 261). <_<
And also:
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No, I think you actually posted over 9,000 times in one day.
If only it were easier to merge the two forums...
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Yay! great job! :D
Also DT I missed your 6666 post count D:
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Dang it. I was shooting for top 10 as well. D:
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No, I think you actually posted over 9,000 times in one day.
If only it were easier to merge the two forums...
The max I ever posted was 190 I think. :P
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darn. I just got pwned off the top ten list. :P
And wow. I think kalan_vod is the only member on that list who is no longer active.
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Yeah, I pwned you off the list shortly before I got pwned myself with the resync :P
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darn. I just got pwned off the top ten list. :P
And wow. I think kalan_vod is the only member on that list who is no longer active.
Actually there's Spellshaper and tifreak8x who are barely active anymore too, although they're not in the top 10.
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It would be a bit unfeasable to try and completely merge the old forums with the current forums, especially because the old posts have been separated for so long and are considered a different era of Omnimaga's history altogether, not to mention all the broken links everywhere. I think the best way is probably just moving the old posts to the same hosting/smf board and keeping the link for the archive on the forum board list page currently there.
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I was caught rather off guard today, I logged in and saw my name on the top of a list in a news article and I was like wtf? Did I do something impressive when I wasn't looking? lol come to find out it's just 'cus I've been here forever. :D
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It would be a bit unfeasable to try and completely merge the old forums with the current forums, especially because the old posts have been separated for so long and are considered a different era of Omnimaga's history altogether, not to mention all the broken links everywhere. I think the best way is probably just moving the old posts to the same hosting/smf board and keeping the link for the archive on the forum board list page currently there.
Well it depends. If on Netham45 server it's possible to write a script or .htaccess command that redirects to an incremented post ID when typing a too low one, it could allow links on this forum to work. Otherwisethey could simply increment the old board IDs, but then all old posts would show up above the rest, which would suck to find old stuff and would cause many necroposts.
The other solution could be that Netham45 or Juju writes a SMF mod that allows topic lists to be sorted exactly by start date or post date, rather than topic ID or post ID. It would probably not be too hard to write, because post dates in Linux format are already in one number like this 1328695284
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I'm currently backing up the old forums, in case they go down.
Fixing the url isn't such a hard thing anyway, I have done harder stuff :)
Also, those "Linux" dates are just seconds since epoch (January 1, 1970). PHP et all have very good support for this :)
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I'm currently backing up the old forums, in case they go down.
Fixing the url isn't such a hard thing anyway, I have done harder stuff :)
Also, those "Linux" dates are just seconds since epoch (January 1, 1970). PHP et all have very good support for this :)
I should try this Python script to convert them to SMF.
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I'm currently backing up the old forums, in case they go down.
Fixing the url isn't such a hard thing anyway, I have done harder stuff :)
Also, those "Linux" dates are just seconds since epoch (January 1, 1970). PHP et all have very good support for this :)
Ah ok, when I tried backing them up and tried one of the HTML page generated from HTTrack, it would randomly freeze Opera during about 10 minutes. O.O
As for the timestamps, the problem is that SMF and mods for it lacks the support to sort topics by last post timestamps/date or topic start timestamp/date. It actually sorts by last post ID or by topic start ID, depending of which you choose. So basically if the old posts were imported in here, they would all show above the rest instead of below, because even though their date would be older, their IDs would be newer. Changing the current post IDs is out of the question, because all links will be broken.
One solution, however, could be to just increment the old board IDs anyway, then modify the Custom Board Sort mod (and if necessary, write a mod that modifies the behavior of Last reply default sorting) so that any topic ending with post IDs from a certain range gets sorted at the bottom of the pile and if a board is sorted by topic start date, have topics from a certain ID range be sorted at the bottom too.
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It would be really cool if the old board is able to be integrated with this one. Seems like it might not be too hard. I don't really know much about this kind of thing though. Regardless, it's cool that the old content is at least online. :D
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Well as I said, the main issue is if we don't want to break all links through the 228000 posts on the current board, then we have to make the old posts so they have higher ID numbers than new ones, and this is where the problem arises: SMF appears to sort topics by last reply ID instead of timestamp. The author of the Custom Board Sort mod claims otherwise about his mod, though, so maybe it could be solved with that (Juju would need to check if we run the latest version). Merging by itself seems like it might be easier, since the instructions are available somewhere on SMF site, the problem is just choosing between having all old posts appearing above most of the new ones, breaking all post links like what happened to United-TI two years ago or writing/modifying an SMF mod.
It would be really great, though, to have all old posts merged here, all sorted into the current categories. The projects and ideas board would end up having over 65000 posts too O.O