Agora merged into Administrata

[Cedric]

Hey folks,

Just a quick heads-up, AgoraForo has merged into Administrata. Nothing’s really changing for you; Administrata will stay pretty much the same.

This merge helps me focus on one direction instead of juggling two platforms, which means I can give more attention to improving what we already have. For starters, I’ll be putting more energy into the marketplace over time. On top of that, we’ll soon be adding a dedicated resource manager to make sharing and finding resources easier.

There’s still a bit of cleanup to do, and it’ll happen gradually. If you spot anything that needs fixing, just let me know, feel free to use the report button.

Thanks,
Cedric

 

[Cedric]

I want to add:

We've also enabled the theme from Agora. This will however likely be offered for sale soon though.

 

[frm]

I want to add:

We've also enabled the theme from Agora. This will however likely be offered for sale soon though.

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Exclusive or multiple sales?

 

[Cedric]

Exclusive or multiple sales?

Multiple.

 

[fdk]

Have we migrated in any new members from this?

Regardless, even more reason to spread the word of Administrata and help grow this great resource now everyone.

 

[frm]

Have we migrated in any new members from this?

Regardless, even more reason to spread the word of Administrata and help grow this great resource now everyone.

Seeing the "newest members" list, it doesn't appear to be migrated yet.

 

[Cedric]

We have, but I think there's a little bug because the last registered member was number #149, while a new registered member as of now will appear in the #400s.

 

[frm]

We have, but I think there's a little bug because the last registered member was number #149, while a new registered member as of now will appear in the #400s.

I hate it when this happens. I like ids in order and have hard delete, etc., off to preserve the id to ever reference back to what it was (even if it was a spam post, it's kept for spam analysis to harden anti-spam measures).

You would've had to export user by user and then import user by user, but it doesn't carry their password over, so you would have to either update the old hashed password to the new email in xf_user or email them to reset their password, one by one again.

I'm going to build a better importer that imports join/last activity date with all their information, that can handle it in bulk so it would go from user 100 to 101 seamlessly with the 101st joining on the day, and not the day they joined the last forum, as it would be in the past when they are joining a new forum which isn't logical.

 

[Cedric]

I hate it when this happens. I like ids in order and have hard delete, etc., off to preserve the id to ever reference back to what it was (even if it was a spam post, it's kept for spam analysis to harden anti-spam measures).

You would've had to export user by user and then import user by user, but it doesn't carry their password over, so you would have to either update the old hashed password to the new email in xf_user or email them to reset their password, one by one again.

I'm going to build a better importer that imports join/last activity date with all their information, that can handle it in bulk so it would go from user 100 to 101 seamlessly with the 101st joining on the day, and not the day they joined the last forum, as it would be in the past when they are joining a new forum which isn't logical.

Yeah, it's not ideal. My join date has even went back to months before this forum was made. Luckily that's an easy fix though. (when I have time)

 

[frm]

My join date has even went back to months before this forum was made.

True. Didn't think about that. But, the user id is awkward to skip so much like that. It should just insert into the next row (incremental). I don't know how the ids are calculated on an import, whether they use the old forum's ids, or what, but now a new member joining will have an id of #600 or so because of that 300 gap.

People like me that pay attention to the id can see the newest member 10000, but see only 5000 members, and it makes me question what happened: That many spam joins, bans, etc.?