Author: Dadi Jonsson
Date: 14:51:48 12/02/05
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>Nice!, it's really clean and the search seems wonderful. That was my original motivation for trying to migrate CCC to mwForum. It has all the useful functionality of the more popular forum software packages without being bloated. >I'm guessing mwForum allows you to import messages that are threaded. It seems really nice. I would never consider forum software that didn't allow threaded discussions. You actually have a choice of linear or threaded discussions for each board within the forum. >If there was a way of using *just* the seach function it would be great. Though >mwForum seems to be a whole forum package in itself. Each board can be defined as readonly (well, the admins and the moderators can always post). But mwForum is actually a full blown forum package with a lot of options. IMHO it would be a wise move to replace the current CCC forum software with mwForum :=). It makes administration so much easier >How long did it take to index the 250.000 messages, etc? I'll have to give it a >try. I actually indexed all the 500.000 messages, although I have only imported half of them into the forum. I didn't time it but I guess the Perl script took around 30 minutes (Opteron 248) to finish the whole thing. It also reformatted the messages, removed hundreds of thousands of control characters, HTML-escaped special characters, etc. When you try to rebuild the threads you will run into some problems (missing messages, empty messages, mismatch in filename and internal message number etc.). In my case, however, the hardest part was to produce a list of posters as mwForum requires unique usernames and e-mails. Note that my forum currently generates diagrams for all FEN strings found in messages. This means that you will even see diagrams in messages from 1997. This function can be restricted so that only FEN strings with [D] in front of them will be converted to diagrams. Finally, you can move the pieces on the diagrams in the forum (only legal moves, no takebacks).
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