As Kephisto said, we're simply creating copies of it. I feel better having a copy nice and safe on my hard-drive, in case Bioware ever decides to retire the old forum completely or even if something just goes wrong. Having a second copy (Kephisto's mirror) just makes it that much safer and helps guarantee nothing will be lost.
Now, in addition to that, I'm post-processing the threads and creating an index of them. I'm looking into search engines now, but it looks like when I'm done processing them, I'll probably be exposing the entire index to a customized Google search. That means anything from the old Bioboards will be searchable using full Google syntax, which is a whole lot more powerful than what the forum search can do. Like I said earlier, I'm also adding an IRC-bot front-end, so when you're in the IRC channels, you will be able to ask questions and get a link to the best thread that might help you.
So, it's a matter of security, safety, and making the old content usable by the community.
I have over 30,000 pages done so far and an almost 100% success rate in my parser.
Now, what I really wanna know, is if it took me a day to make a program, which is a total hack-job, that can pull the posts out of their messy pages, why couldn't they have 2 professional developers spend 2 hours to write a script to pull the old posts out of the
database and import them here? Sounds like professional nonsense, to me. If they're interested, they can have a copy of my app and use that to move all their threads.
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Modifié par pkpeachykeen, 16 juillet 2010 - 07:12 .
