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[visionaut]

Hi again Steve,

 

I know you're likely chasing other issues with the new site (awesome work, BTW), so I'm cautious to mention this additional issue I've discovered.

 

If you go into General Discussion, and head to the very oldest Threads/Posts (by using the Page navigation buttons) - the threads there all show up missing some data/meta-data.  I don't know how far back in time you were trying to capture/transition/translate old info to the new site - but thought I'd share what I'm seeing.

 

Example:  on the last page currently - Page 3477.  All the Threads show -1 Replies, and they show as if they were all started by "Guest_*", with a null/blank started-date.  (The # of Views counts show different numbers though, so maybe that part is fine.).  But the most serious issue is that when you click on any of the threads their to view them - they come up completely empty (blank).

 

Page 3477 link:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/forum/8-02-general-discussion/page-3477?prune_day=100&sort_by=Z-A&sort_key=last_post&topicfilter=all

 

Traversing forward a few pages, when I get to Page 3473, things start to improve some.  At this point the threads start to show Replies counts greater than -1, and they now show they were all started by "Guest_Anonymous_*" with a started date of Dec 25, 2001.  They now don't open empty - you can see posts, and the text from posts, but no images in any posts.  And all posts from from the same "Guest_Anonymous_*" user.

 

Page 3473 link:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/forum/8-02-general-discussion/page-3473?prune_day=100&sort_by=Z-A&sort_key=last_post&topicfilter=all

 

 

Around Page 3460 or so, the Post dates start to increment  - Dec 26, 27, 28, etc.  Moving further forward, I can start to see some images in posts (mainly link images).  It's not until I get to Page 2060 (Oct 14, 2005) do I see a Thread started or replied-to from a real user [username].

 

Page 2060 link:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/forum/8-02-general-discussion/page-2060?prune_day=100&sort_by=Z-A&sort_key=last_post&topicfilter=all

 

From that point things start to look more normal.  Maybe this is all alright, as I recall Oct 15, 2005 was a key date for the FAQ... 

 

Hope this info is useful.

Tom

Edited April 27, 2013 by visionaut

[steve k.]

The oldest posts are from the days of our first Forum Software. Some of the meta data is missing and was lost in the first migration. So we will not get that back. Newer stuff will work.