WEEEERK!
Be honest. How many of you even paid attention to the facebook status update feature that Vanilla has? I didnāt even realize it was there until it came time to skin itā¦maybe I shouldnāt even bother and just remove it?
Nah I went on that IRC with the people running the site, the general vibe was āWe donāt give a fuck about the forums anymoreā
And so far weāve had one hosting company offer to host the SRK forums for $120 a month and several experts saying itās fucking crazy for it to be costing 2k a month even with Vanilla.
Between a group who no longer care about the forums and have either been shockingly inept ar running them at best or who are lying to us at worst and passionate people frenticly putting in work to migrate our community elsewhere and keep it alive I know who to throw my hat in with.
If you guys want to have SRK forums archived, ask one of the owners to get a database dump of the current forums. Vanilla uses MySQL and there are ways to get full database backups that will be in one (or a few) large files. Then if there was another Vanilla forum setup somewhere, you could just import the database backup. And if Vanilla isnāt being used, there could be scripts that are written to make the backup database to whatever schema the new forum is using. That would require a decent amount of work but in theory it should be doable.
If you can migrate all of that stuff over, you would have all the user accounts and threads instantly in a new forum. But the key is getting that database dump which who knows if that is something they would even allow others to have access to at this point. It seems like the owners donāt give a shit so I donāt see why they would even care other than being power trippy.
I think @Sephiroth73003 tried to get it off Mr Wizard on the IRC last night and Mr Wizard was convinced it couldnāt be done with Vanilla.
@bchan009 making a new site can always be done, but migrating current SRK forums or at least the important one GD is limited by time, Iād be happy to contribute what time and money I can. but please give data migration priority, we need to keep the history alive!
And Iām trying not to get my hopes up, but this thread has me cautiously optimistic, maybe this isnāt the end after all.
That what couldnāt be done with Vanilla? A database dump couldnāt be gotten?
I think so
Well heās 100% wrong.
I know computer illiterate people know things are stored in the ācloudā but does he think itās some magical fluffy cloud floating around in the sky that he canāt reach or something?
Mr. Wizard didnāt really answer other than say an archive would be created. I reached out to vanilla to see if a database dump would be possible if Tom asked for it or if it would be part of the archive and have not heard back yet.
Iām a professional full stack developer, if I can get a copy would like to assist some sort of migration. Even if it is in an archive section.
@bchan009 @āJasen Hicksā
Whatever website we migrate to, lets ensure we have a SSL certificate so our account information is SAFE.
Letās Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) is a is a non-profit Certificate Authority sponsored by many big named companies such as: Google, Mozilla, and Facebook. Their mission is to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web by letting people and organizations around the world obtain, renew, and manage FREE SSL/TLS certificates. This means websites can enable secure (encrypted) HTTPS connections.
However not all web hosts allow Letās Encrypt support because SSL certificates sales generate a lot of revenue for web hosts.
List of supported web hosts: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/web-hosting-who-support-lets-encrypt/6920
A2Hosting (https://www.a2hosting.com/) is a good and fast (well known + good reviews) web host that offers Letās Encrypt support. However with the amount of traffic SRK gets, dedicated hosting may be needed. VPS should be the bare minimum however. More research should be done though.
A2 Hosting also supports vanillaforums with plenty of documentation, so doing a MySQL dump of SRKās databases shouldnāt be too much of a hassle. Yes it will be work to ensure a smooth transition, but it IS POSSIBLE without too much time.
Shoryuken2.
This would be great^
I would be interested.