Your DP Blogs will be lost

[sisko]

Sorry folks, I've done all I could, but I am unable to bring the blogs over to VBulletin.

I hope to bring a blogging system back into VB as soon as possible, but your phpBB blogs will disappear. Please take the time to back up your blog if you choose.

[cyberfluxor]

That's going to make a few people very busy for awhile to back all that up. It's all for the better though.

[Rogmeister]

I kind of figured this might happen...I've rarely gone back into older ones anyway. Still, I might copy my blogs and print them out (minus the few photos) to refer to for my own enjoyment. Do we know how long before the current blogs cease to exist?

[sisko]

Do we know how long before the current blogs cease to exist?

Once the conversion is completed, we will probably lock all of the topics down, so no one can post here, but leave phpBB 'up' for a little while longer so people can back their blogs up.

I do plan on shutting the board down again tonight to reattempt the conversion.

[Pantechnicon]

Thanks for the heads-up, Sisko.

/Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, all night long...

[Ed Oscuro]

Fuck, I don't have time to do this tonight. Anyway, when are they going down?

...guess this is the incentive I needed to move my blogs over to my own site

[Ed Oscuro]

p.s. thanks for all the effort, though, seriously. Don't mean to sound ungrateful. I've gotten a lotta bang out of these forums especially considering they're free

Also, if there are new Blogs, will trackbacks be removed? That's all that's needed to keep spammers out (as the blogs already had a ban function).

[sisko]

Also, if there are new Blogs, will trackbacks be removed? That's all that's needed to keep spammers out (as the blogs already had a ban function).

Being that I don't have a DP blog myself, I never realized that there was an issue, let alone this was the cause.

I honestly don't know outright as I have barely had a chance to research the various blog mods for VB. I'll keep it in mind though...

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

So in other words, our blogs will be trapped on an island with no means of escape, with a mysterious hatch leading to a buried underground installation, strange and unearthly threats, a bunch of folks on the other side of the island who are up to no good, and killer ratings?

[sisko]

So in other words, our blogs will be trapped on an island with no means of escape, with a mysterious hatch leading to a buried underground installation, strange and unearthly threats, a bunch of folks on the other side of the island who are up to no good, and killer ratings?

Damned polar bears

[mezrabad]

Stay thy hand!!!

How long do I have to back mine up?

[Rogmeister]

I saw the other night where the blogs would be lost...then I began copying and printing a copy out for myself of my own blog. Then the site went down...after I'd managed to do a dozen pages. I see the site's up again and I'm hoping it'll stay available until I finish. I'm now up to 15 pages but I've still got about a year's entries to go. I think I'll run over to the local service station and get a couple of Pepsi's as this could take awhile...

[RetroYoungen]

Thanks for trying to keep them, and hopefully they'll come back in the (somewhat) near future. I really have enjoyed typing into my DP blog, I actually had people reading it (and people that I knew would input in theirs, so I could read those too).

[Ed Oscuro]

Also, if there are new Blogs, will trackbacks be removed? That's all that's needed to keep spammers out (as the blogs already had a ban function).

Being that I don't have a DP blog myself, I never realized that there was an issue, let alone this was the cause.

I honestly don't know outright as I have barely had a chance to research the various blog mods for VB. I'll keep it in mind though...

Yeah, that's basically it. Spammers would just hit the trackback and that'd leave comments the same way that regular posters could, except if you also had comments from regular users you couldn't delete all the spam. Basically it lets unregistered users post (in this case, spambots).

[mezrabad]

Out of about 145 entries I had gotten to 29 before suddenly they were no longer accessible. Suddenly it was dark and cold, and I was alone and scared.

Sisko, I really appreciate all the work you're doing to upgrade the site. I understand it takes a lot of time and because it is behind the scenes work it can go largely unappreciated. Please understand you have my appreciation. Thank you. If upgrading DP means losing the blogs as they exist here, so be it, but PLEASE give us all time to back them up.

FYI, some of my recent entries have taken me three to four hours to do when one counts all the time taken to find, pay for, prep, record, photograph, play, review and blog each obscure game. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has put careful thought, or what passes for thought, into their blog.

Please appreciate that some of the blogs are non-trivial efforts and to have them taken off-line forever without the chance to back them up beforehand will understandably make a lot of us unhappy in a very complex and long-term way.

[Ed Oscuro]

Also, this has been the first time I've been able to get on DP since my last post in the thread. Ow.

[Lady Jaye]

Wow, just finished transferring my DP blogs to my Livejournal account.

To me, it was weird to quickly skim through old posts from the past 14 months -- how much my life has changed, they might as well be dated back 5 years ago or what not. Then again, different job, different guy (well, kinda), different home... might as well say different life compared to July 2005, when the DP blogs started.

BTW, if you're transferring your blog to Livejournal, be careful of entering the right date/year... or else put an Aug. 2005 post into Aug. 2006 (or something like that)...

[dreams]

Once the conversion is completed, we will probably lock all of the topics down, so no one can post here, but leave phpBB 'up' for a little while longer so people can back their blogs up.

The blogs will most likely be available for some undefined (at this point) amount of time after the conversion, although it probably isn't a bad idea to back them up prior to conversion if possible.

[le geek]

"Green Elf, all your powers will be lost!"

[Kitsune Sniper]

Jeez, guys, don't get all worried. They already said the blogs would remain up for a little bit after the forum transfer. :P

Saving all that stuff right now may make the forum slow again.