To my fellow Sketchuppers...
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You guys are actually doing 30,000 posts by hand? There's got to be some way to automate at least most of it with an external macro.
I feel your pain, but hope there's a better way.
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I wish there were. Trust me we checked.
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@unknownuser said:
I wish there were. Trust me we checked.
YIKES!!
I know I have said thank you to Coen & others involved in the past...now thank you seems not enough????
But what to say.......?? I guess best to let the Good Folks who have provided a comfortable respite to the Google fallout steer us to a better... safer home,and provide good breadth in the process.C
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@gaieus said:
I won't push the RPS forum into public without Al Hart registering or the Kerky forum without Tomasz for instance.
My opinion to this is also in relation to the "Not yet registered" announcement in the new forum. Isn't it possible to retain/attribute a poster's name to a post even if that person has not registered? A dummy name, not a member, but identical to a username in the old forum?
Maybe I am dumb to all this, just voicing my opinion. The reason being, if waiting for some user registration is going to hold back full migration, the confusion over duplicate forums will be prolonged. Right now, I am confused where the latest happenings are. I come to the old forum here, activity is restrained; but it hasn't picked up in the new forum either.
I don't mean to overstress the moderators and volunteers. I fervently wish for them that the migration work could be automated.
Cheers,
Guite -
guite,
it did not feel right to us to register people without them knowing it. what if they decide not to register there?
so our best solution was to create the "non registered yet" account to cover for the non registered members. please notice that all posts attributed to "non registered yet" have the name of the original poster at the bottom between brackets.
what is holding back the full working of the new board is not the fact that many have not registered yet but simply that not all threads have been moved yet.
in a few days everything will be running smoothly again, we hope.
regards.
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Guite,
While I fully understand that there will be some members who will never return and that "not registered yet" account will always be there, what we would like to avoid now is to attribute posts those users who have hundreds of posts here to this account just to re-attribute them later.
Not a big deal but still a couple of clicks with each post. Until we have other things to do as well, the order of the new subforums being moved (and "published" there does not really count.
We will certainly do what yoi are suggesting after a while - so the transfer will not stop just because of some people not having yet registered.
BTW: Tomasz is already there...
And thank you all for your support, I really hope that after a couple of weeks you won't even remember this.
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Umm I was completly unaware of the need to "move" previous posts other than a general awareness that the operators of this site were "moving" to another site. My fathers motto was if I cant fix it with a hammer than I need to get a bigger hammer...so for folks like me you need to get a bigger hammer and make us aware of our responsibility to help.
so where do I go to help and what do I need to do to help out.
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Phil,
You are already there. That's the only thing you can help with at the moment - this way we can "re-attribute" your old posts already transferred to your account.
The problem is with some regulars or "power posters" in the past who haven't visited for a while and may not be aware of the whole transfer at all. Then there are some members who visit but don't read the announcements and just keep posting in their "regular" forums.
Now as I have already posted a board PM about the transfer already, I suspect they don't even read their PMs either. That's just double work for us; first assinging this "non registered yet" account to all their posts and then when they finally show up, doing it again with their real accounts.
What you "old regulars" could help with however is that if you know some of these people personally (or even just virtually), try to get them to devote 10 seconds to register at the new board.
Well, and thanks everybody for the support.
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@unknownuser said:
i see people complaining about the process of registration. i frankly do not get it. it is similar to the registration process everywhere and i and many others have registered without any problems. i wonder what the problem is...
i am not worried about the number of people that will move with us. the ones who are really interested will move.
And I second that. It didnt seem any more complicated than registering here. In fact, it from what I can remember it is easier.
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Have you sent out an email to all users or is that possible. Sometimes I check email but I don't go online to web forums for a while.
Well maybe you could also post a user list of users that have not migrated yet. That's probably too much work.
Or the age old adage will apply...you snooze you lose.
regards
Phil
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I actually sent out a board email (and by accident, three times) but there was this issue with email notifications in general so it may have got(ten) stuck somewhere in the air.
As for the non yet registered members; there are about six time more here than at the new board. This means of course a lot of newly registered ones and the number of those having posted a considerable amount but not registered yet is not too high. So maybe we can "collect" them.
Shaun Tennant for instance.
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