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[quote=PolyesterTroll][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]We can ask that registration be required, or we can just go do it.  Nothing stopping anyone (except that I just tried and received a Site Administrator Error??)
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This highlights one of the issues. The registration system doesn't always work correctly. People forget their passwords and usernames. They change their email address and can't get password reminders. Then they demand that we remove all of the posts linked to their username. It is often a resource challenge to manage the few registered users that we have.

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This seems like a silly excuse. How much time do you spend deleting posts every day vs. the one-time investment it would take to migrate the site to a platform with a working registration system? If you change your email, just sign up for a new account. People can log in and delete their own posts if they want, just like in any other modern forum software - why would it take admin time?[/quote]

Obviously you know more about this than I do so please tell me the cost, time requirement, and other ramifications of migrating the site? I've only been doing this for 10 years, so I suspect that you can teach me a lot. I'm all ears.

Oh yeah, also explain the mechanism for migrating a decade's worth of posts to the new system.
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Absolutely. We can pull the content and meta data from the database and import it to the new database and set up redirects with existing threads. Generally the hardest part is migrating user passwords because they should be encrypted in a way that they cannot be migrated, but there are so few registered DCUM users that it is less of an issue.

This forum is 10 years old, doesn't have a registration system that works without errors, constantly crashes under high loads, and doesn't have a mobile version. You can do better. I estimate the time cost to be a week full time work from an experienced programmer. The cost depends on if you can find a volunteer or a friendly vendor, I guess. [/quote]

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