Pending Move

[Bob Schroeck]

And everything that was lost is now restored. Better yet, this time I used MyBB's backup facilities to make backups every couple forums, so another fatfinger event won't wipe us out completely.  Better yet, I've activated the automated weekly backup task.  We're covered now, folks.

I also (re)discovered the "Recount & Rebuild" utilities, which include in their number tools to automate a lot of the thread counting and most recent post tracking tasks I was doing by hand.  Everything should be showing the right info everywhere, Morgan!

In other news, I have, after deeper study of the tables, realized that the sequence of posts in a MyBB thread appears to be controlled solely by the timestamp on the post, not any arbitrary "post number" field.  This means I can move the old data for recently-active boards over, let you guys pick up on the new boards in where you left off here, and when Brent and I get the incremental scrape data, it will all slot itself automatically into its proper place in between in the various threads.

So that's our next step.  I've stayed away from forums with content postdating Brent's scrape, but I'm going to start locking and moving them now, and I'm encouraging people to just migrate over to the new boards wholesale as I do.-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.