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so what was it THIS TIME ??
We felt that the divide and grow rule would help MP out very well because with MP being an independant site, we could add more to it in terms of information and features. As it turns out, no one really gave a shit....
So after a little debate over the weekend (and a near unanimous agreement between the team), we have decided to merge all the sites - but starting only with MP and MS since they are both musically related. Obviously this wasn't something that would have gone live without discussing with the members and so to even make sure it works (to begin with), I decided to run a test on a dummy database in the back.
But that still begs the question, why the fuck were we off for 24 hours encryption ??
I know I know, ok so I found a piece of code that will merge the users and forums of both sites into 1 database.... when I ran the mod on a fresh new database and imported all the posts / forums / users from MP, it worked like a charm..... and it left MP intact (I also decided to experiment with MP first since it is a smaller DB, restoring it would have been less of a headache)
anyways since the MP import to the new DB went without a hitch, I thought, why not try it with MS.... and thats when the shit hit my face..... it changed all the member numbers, post associations and forum ids BEFORE importing it onto the new DB. Consquently, the entire site went offline in an instant.....
Luckily because of my last experiences, I had a backup of about 10 minutes before the site went down so a few of you may find a couple of missing posts.....
now back to the issue..... what do the members think of the merging ? YAY OR NAY ??
-e-
We felt that the divide and grow rule would help MP out very well because with MP being an independant site, we could add more to it in terms of information and features. As it turns out, no one really gave a shit....
So after a little debate over the weekend (and a near unanimous agreement between the team), we have decided to merge all the sites - but starting only with MP and MS since they are both musically related. Obviously this wasn't something that would have gone live without discussing with the members and so to even make sure it works (to begin with), I decided to run a test on a dummy database in the back.
But that still begs the question, why the fuck were we off for 24 hours encryption ??
I know I know, ok so I found a piece of code that will merge the users and forums of both sites into 1 database.... when I ran the mod on a fresh new database and imported all the posts / forums / users from MP, it worked like a charm..... and it left MP intact (I also decided to experiment with MP first since it is a smaller DB, restoring it would have been less of a headache)
anyways since the MP import to the new DB went without a hitch, I thought, why not try it with MS.... and thats when the shit hit my face..... it changed all the member numbers, post associations and forum ids BEFORE importing it onto the new DB. Consquently, the entire site went offline in an instant.....
Luckily because of my last experiences, I had a backup of about 10 minutes before the site went down so a few of you may find a couple of missing posts.....
now back to the issue..... what do the members think of the merging ? YAY OR NAY ??
-e-
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