Runs around with hair on

Runs around with hair on fire!  Hopefully Murphy won't interfere!

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This forum says I've been a member for 10 years.. (Wow!)

Or did you mean to say "members that are new from Oct 2020-Jan 2021 should have an account already, while Sept 2020- beginning of time haven't been moved over yet.

Post references

Will they convert post references if at least on a thread level? Such, at least if someone has a link in a post to a specific reply/entry on page X of another post on the current forum, that it will at minimum links to page 1 entry/reply 1 of the converted other thread on the new forum.

Will they have a translation table available that can be configured on the site so someone going to "https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/41737" will get a "301 permanently moved" redirect to the converted thread on forum.mrhmag.com?

Lots of questions still

forum.mrhmag.com No account found

Just tried to login, the site indicates, No Account Found. 

Joe said that they won't have it completed until Feb.

I suspect that they are moving the last registered members first and working back to those of us here from day 1.  I think the oldtimers need to be patient while the new site is being built.

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He said it'll be done in February.

Specifically ...

Joe, more or less sub-forums

Joe, more or less sub-forums on the new site?

Personally, I've found less to be more.  People seem to gravitate to the pages that get the action and completely avoid others.  There can be swing too far the other direction, too, but sub-forums that have the action from the past 2-5 days on the first page seems to be a nice medium to me.

URL?

I know its mid-February and you have had all sorts of problems this month, but should I be able to at least access the forum site even if I can not login?

I get this error trying forum.mrhmag.com:

Now when I try forums.mrhmag.com I get Under construction, please come back later.

Until we give the official word, it's not available

We will all wait ...

patiently. Right folks?

Here's one for the testers to check

Hi Joe and team

Here's one for our tyre-kickers to check out on the new forum before it goes live.

When quoting a thread with a photo in it, the photo does not appear in the "quote" area of the new message after posting. It used to  But this now appears to be broken on the current forum.  for example 

In my " Timebomb defused" message  I quoted part of an earlier message  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/corrimal-colliery-and-its-incline-a-different-slant-on-rails-12206968 that contained a photo of Mount Kembla that is stored on the MRH server at  https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/sites/model-railroad-hobbyist.com/files/users/Oztrainz/P1300054a.jpg The "Timebomb defused" message appeared with space left for the photo, but with the photo not displayed. If you clicked on where the photo was supposed to be, then the photo opened in a different tab as   https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/sites/model-railroad-hobbyist.com/files/users/Oztrainz/P1300054a.jpg 

It appears that the link to the image is not being called to cause it to display as expected in the correct spot of the quote area. 

Using MS Edge with Windows 10 on a Macbook Pro 

Latest on the forum migration

Mock update now scheduled

requirements for individuals?

So what are the requirements for individuals hoping to maintain their history of posting to the old forum?

...some sort of blog list, etc??

Will the system still log us off?

One thing that is annoying is when the website logs me off because I have been on for too long.  Will that be the same on the new site?

Ken L. 

Question about photos

Hi Joe, 

I saw something somewhere about how photos will be migrated but can't find it now. (Something about saving them 1 at a time or something similar??)

I have a fair few photos (probably 100 - I haven't counted them up) in the file server area against my name. So to the questions:

1. do I need to do anything about my photos in the file server before the upgrade? If so, what do i need to do?
2. the new forum has album capabilities - If I move a photo from where it lands after the migration and then if I try to add the photo to an album will it destroy the link to where it has been posted?
3. The position for me is probably more complicated than most because I my have used the same photo in multiple posts to demonstrate different things eg photos of my Jaxcilliest Enterprise small layout have been used in 3 different postings that I know of (and there may be another 1 or 2 places I've forgotten) If I add an existing photo to an album and it breaks the links to multiple posts, how will I know where all he links are broken so i can fix them (assuming I'm allowed to posts that have existed for a considerable time)? 

That's probably enough stuff or me to check after the migration this weekend,

History

What history are you referring too?

All your old posts will be there, even the number of posts you have made.

If you want an index like a table of contents to all your posts you created as blogs, then you need to create it here on the old forum to get it transferred. If this is what you are referring to check out:  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/joe-fugates-blog-index-12218221, be sure to read the first comment. Note this index is only to the original post you created as blog posts, not topic posts at least as far as I can tell.

If you want the history available here under account -> track page, will have to see if the next upload/conversion includes that change as the old conversion did not.

On the new forum there is a + following feature so you can look at activity on all threads you follow, any you create on the new forum or post too will automatically be added to threads you follow as I recall.

Is the migration to the New Forum software still on?

Is there a new date for the migration to the New Forum software still on in spite of all the roadblocks (COVID etc.,.) The demise of the black edges limiting line length and the current photo upload process will be welcome. 

No date yet