Moving to a New System
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I have made the decision in moving our forums over to a new software stack. Utilizing NodeBB as the new forums will have the great benefit of being integrated with ActivityPub. My belief is that this will help in bringing new eyes on to the content, threads, and posts as they will be viewable within Mastodon, Lemmy, and other Fediverse places.
I still love Invision Community and will be looking for a project that would be fitting within the system here. For the 2TonWaffle community I believe in that by using NodeBB will help it out. Add in the fact of being part of the Fediverse and open source itself, would be a great avenue in being part of the wider community.
For the cons which are a few. Unfortunately there isn't a converter that I could use to take all of the posts and threads and have them put into NodeBB forum. What this meant is that I manually copied and pasted the users and their associated emails over to the new forums and was in the process of moving some threads when I realized in the amount of work it would be. I have copied over most if not all of the General Discussion section and even changed out the thread owners if they were made by our other members. What I'll probably do is take some time and eventually copy over the rest of the threads but, going forward the new forums are essentially starting fresh.
Would love to see you over on our new forums, if you had an account here you may need to do a password reset and/or confirm your emails.
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