Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
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Y HALO THAR
Welcome to the new TLS Forums, now running XenForo; first off, thank you for your patience, the migration itself took about 24 hours which I guess isn’t too bad given how we’ve migrated about 700.000 posts overnight, but it’s still pretty bad. Apologies for the huge pink font, I regret nothing.
We’re still sorting out some things, so if the site breaks while you’re browsing it, please don’t panic, chances are we’re working on it.
When you’re a returning user, logging in should just work with your existing credentials; you can log in with either your username or registration e-mail address and your current password.
Now, this is important: if you’re missing something, it’s not lost, we will be keeping the old forums around for a while (maybe indefinitely, or until it gets hacked to shit) at https://thelifestream.net/oldforums - if you’re missing anything, check back there.
Reporting bugs
If you find an issue, please check threads in the Feedback section and make sure it’s not been reported yet. If not, please create a new thread; we’d like to keep track of issues and having them all over the place or in a single thread makes it hard to keep track.
Now, while we think we’ve got most things sorted out, there’s still a number of outstanding issues that we both need to fix and to figure out in the first place. These are, in no particular order:
Japanese text
We have a number of posts using Japanese characters. Because of how vBulletin stored these and how Xenforo stores them now, these have not been transferred over correctly. To fix these, we need to:
That should re-store these posts as UTF-8, that is, in their proper encoding.
Apologies for the inconvenience, we were unable to find a way to fix these and the Xf support forums were unresponsive in this case.
Thanks
The thanks system on vBulletin was a 3rd party plugin, so that data was not imported via the official importer. There was a post on the Xf forums about migrating them over, but that was a hack that tried to load all thanks into memory in one go and go through them one at a time, which didn’t work and caused some issues on the server. It was probably also mainly aimed at Xf 1.x, while we’re at 2.0.
I / we will need to write some code to import older thanks over; for reference, there’s about 1.3 million thanks handed out since we installed that system.
Markup & Signatures
Not all BBcode and other markup has been converted properly; please check your own profile and signature to make sure it’s all right. If you run into an error like too many characters or too many images, please create a thread.
Avatars and sizes
While avatars seem to have been imported properly, they are also resized and right now are limited to 96x96; this seems to be a hardcoded thing in Xf. Maybe they’ll allow for larger sizes at some point, but until then we’ll leave it as it is; we can bring up the subject at a later date.
Unread Posts
It seems this information wasn’t transferred over correctly, so if things are showing up as unread that you’re sure you’ve read, please hit this link to mark everything as read. The software should keep track of read / unread threads after that.
Existing links and bookmarks
While Xenforo runs under the same URL as vBulletin, it uses a different internal URL structure. Existing links coming from the outside, or bookmarks, or search engine links may not work. There is a system to allow for an automatic redirect but while we were importing and setting things up this did not work; it will be one of the first things we’ll be working on.
Welcome to the new TLS Forums, now running XenForo; first off, thank you for your patience, the migration itself took about 24 hours which I guess isn’t too bad given how we’ve migrated about 700.000 posts overnight, but it’s still pretty bad. Apologies for the huge pink font, I regret nothing.
We’re still sorting out some things, so if the site breaks while you’re browsing it, please don’t panic, chances are we’re working on it.
When you’re a returning user, logging in should just work with your existing credentials; you can log in with either your username or registration e-mail address and your current password.
Now, this is important: if you’re missing something, it’s not lost, we will be keeping the old forums around for a while (maybe indefinitely, or until it gets hacked to shit) at https://thelifestream.net/oldforums - if you’re missing anything, check back there.
Reporting bugs
If you find an issue, please check threads in the Feedback section and make sure it’s not been reported yet. If not, please create a new thread; we’d like to keep track of issues and having them all over the place or in a single thread makes it hard to keep track.
Now, while we think we’ve got most things sorted out, there’s still a number of outstanding issues that we both need to fix and to figure out in the first place. These are, in no particular order:
Japanese text
We have a number of posts using Japanese characters. Because of how vBulletin stored these and how Xenforo stores them now, these have not been transferred over correctly. To fix these, we need to:
- Go to the old forums and find the same post
- Copy the text - ideally by going into “Edit Post” or “Quote” mode
- Go to the new forums
- Edit post
- Paste
- Save
That should re-store these posts as UTF-8, that is, in their proper encoding.
Apologies for the inconvenience, we were unable to find a way to fix these and the Xf support forums were unresponsive in this case.
Thanks
The thanks system on vBulletin was a 3rd party plugin, so that data was not imported via the official importer. There was a post on the Xf forums about migrating them over, but that was a hack that tried to load all thanks into memory in one go and go through them one at a time, which didn’t work and caused some issues on the server. It was probably also mainly aimed at Xf 1.x, while we’re at 2.0.
I / we will need to write some code to import older thanks over; for reference, there’s about 1.3 million thanks handed out since we installed that system.
Markup & Signatures
Not all BBcode and other markup has been converted properly; please check your own profile and signature to make sure it’s all right. If you run into an error like too many characters or too many images, please create a thread.
Avatars and sizes
While avatars seem to have been imported properly, they are also resized and right now are limited to 96x96; this seems to be a hardcoded thing in Xf. Maybe they’ll allow for larger sizes at some point, but until then we’ll leave it as it is; we can bring up the subject at a later date.
Unread Posts
It seems this information wasn’t transferred over correctly, so if things are showing up as unread that you’re sure you’ve read, please hit this link to mark everything as read. The software should keep track of read / unread threads after that.
Existing links and bookmarks
While Xenforo runs under the same URL as vBulletin, it uses a different internal URL structure. Existing links coming from the outside, or bookmarks, or search engine links may not work. There is a system to allow for an automatic redirect but while we were importing and setting things up this did not work; it will be one of the first things we’ll be working on.
