If the threads are to be become available either here or elsewhere then there is a still a lot of work to do but the most important thing is that the data has been captured.
My original plan was to host them here as part of the forums they belong to but @Onikage is not keen on the idea, preferring to have them archived in an Oldground forum. @DY3 and others on the boxing forum want the old boxing thread resurrected. I am very keen on the idea.
This all works off of the assumption that it can be done. It would take a fair amount of work to get it done as well as help and permission from @Onikage.
So I am throwing it out there. What do you guys want?
While it would be nice to have those threads restored directly in here I think that an archive ground may make some sense. In the old threads a lot of users don’t even exist anymore, and that may cause some heartburn when trying to move posts with them over.
Some of the threads have already been re-made, so maybe an Archiveground is the best option.
Talking out of my ass and doing no research, if discourse has an API to do the heavy lifting, it would be nice to pull them in here.
The users not existing thing is going to be an issue regardless because a post and thread will need an author otherwise it will be non-conforming data. I think we can get around that by: -
Automatically filling in as many from active users here as possible.
Creating a single dummy user for all other threads/posts where the user doesn’t exist here “MissingThreadUser”.
Placing at the bottom of the post “Archive post. Originally created by WhatEverTheirNameWasHere”.
I need to get an example Discourse DB to see its structure as the data will need remodelled back into a DB-compliant format. Will also need to look into ID clashes etc.
