2021-10-01, 08:31 PM
(2021-10-01, 11:51 AM)GowerGulch42 Wrote: It appears that user names were frequently not preserved in the data scrape, nor URLs or BBC code.
Alas, hunt-and-peck may be your best bet if a keyword search doesn't help.
Due to hostilty and lack of cooperation by the old forum's owner, the import process was a highly custom, high effort process. Getting the content that we now have required many hours of effort, and unfortunately did not focus on maintaining URLs or special encoding (BB Code in the old forum was incomptable with this forum with significant additional effort). Sorry if this isn't a great solution, but the entire process was a significant effort simply to get the posts imported.
If someone with the time & knowledge in data processing wants to volunteer to further process the old content, I am quite happy to work with them.