I explained that to Eeems, as well as the fact that a lot of work was spent on lists of projects and news that includes many links, as well as the many United-TI complains about the broken download/topic links on other sites, but he didn't care much since incrementing all links would apparently reduce their workload in the future, particularly for future SMF updates. I guess you could explain the situation to him via PM and even start a poll or something. I certainly won't do such thing, because I don't want to be seen as overeacting again or something.

THe other solution was to just increment the 2005-07 post IDs and not the rest, but then those topics would end up showing up above newer threads, due to the retarded way in which SMF sorts topics (by ID rather than date). This means that SMF would need to be modded to allow such sorting, causing even more problems for the future 2.0 upgrade

I also doubt that Netham45 will like if Eeems just flat out delete all 55000 posts made before August 2008, considering the hard work that he spent merging both databases, so getting rid of those posts is most likely out of the question too.

Leaving evrything as it is just prevents any future upgrade at all, since SMF 2.0 doesn't allow negative topic/post IDs, unlike SMF 1.1. It also breaks some stuff on the new server (particularly due to the db using InnoDB I think), such as forum stats. Notice, for example, how it says we now have 1.4 million posts, instead of 360K.


That said, the site has become totally unmaintainable in its current state (with everything as separate entities, like the downloads section, tutorials, etc), which is why a few years from now, a major upgrade to SMF 2.0, where every extra module would be redone from scratch, has been planned. However, the "minus world" has put the entire project on hold.

The short term solution I proposed, however, was adding a warning at the top of every topic page that says that old URLs changed and a button/link to automatically access the new URL via some script.

EDIT: I got another idea (see server maintenance thread): Incrementing everything by 100000 (1 million for post IDs) then installing a custom SMF mod that auto-redirects if someone tries to access a lower ID (which would now be possible due to lack of overlapping IDs).

Yeah,  I certainly don't want to have to edit all my news. As for deleting old topics, I don't like the idea either, even if they are old, since that's part of Omni history. I noticed that yAronet 68K board recently went from 320000 posts to about 60000, which isn't too good, and too many websites restart from scratch, like Revsoft (although that wasn't much their fault).

As for URLs, I think that if topics IDs were incremented by 100000 and post IDs by 1 million, it would allow staff to create a small SMF modification (installable via the admin CP, like the arcade or download system) which re-mapped (via redirects, sort-of) all topic IDs from 1-99999 to 100001-199999 and posts IDs from 1-999999 to 1000001-1999999. This would be much less damageable than simply incrementing topic IDs by 2598 and post IDs by 54125, like what was planned (which would make a redirect/remapping script impossible).

That mod would have to be done for both SMF 1.1 and 2.0, though. Patching the code directly (without doing so via a mod) is not an option, since it would prevent future upgrades.

Anyway, yeah there is a more appropriate topic to discuss this here: http://ourl.ca/17035/307596

If I was you I would probably suggest the idea in the server maintenance topic instead, though, since Eeems only monitors that one.

Technically it would actually be Omni v7.0. There used to be a beta subdomain (leaked by mistake) a while back, but there wasn't much there anyway. It's a long way off considering that admins have a life, but wants the site to keep 100% of its content (except maybe the deprecated arcade mod) under v7, because almost all SMF mods would be recoded from scratch, while the forums would run SMF 2.0. A new theme would also need to be made since I doubt admins would want to go the cheap, unoriginal route of using pre-made ones or the default theme.

Anyway back on topic, have you any plan to make this up to date in the near future compu?

I rented a new server yesterday, I hope it will be available tomorrow.

EDIT:
They already activated the server today and I redesigned the website.
If someone wants to update the list, register on the website and let me know. I'm not sure how much time I can put into this since I'm getting closer to finishing school.
And please report any bugs you might find

http://euve34239.vserver.de/pacspire/index.php

You should ask Omni or juju for a subdomain maybe (with DNS access so you can update it when you switch servers)

nspire.julosoft.net, nspire.juju2143.ca or nspire.mtv-music-generator.com could be one of the domain name and the URL wouldn't change on every server move.

Nice to see this is still being continued