What to do with archives

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Netham45:
Pretty much says it all.

I'm for integrating it into the existing site, but I don't know rather we should create an 'archive' forum and move all the posts in there, or move it into existing categories.

DJ Omnimaga:
Personally I would move everything into existing categories, merging the old data with the new board, to keep everything in one place like on United-TI for example. However I assume the old posts would either need negative IDs (which I'm unsure if SMF and MySQL supports) or that you would have to write a SMF mod that sorts topics by last reply timestamp instead of last reply ID, to make sure the order remains right (although for the news subforum I don't think this might be a problem, but I could be wrong).

Regardless of what happens, however, it would be nice if those 73 news topics could be fixed (to have their original date with 10-ish AM time).

If somehow you decided to keep everything separate, then I think you should rename the categories so they're the exact same as here, but append (Archive) in the title or something.

Netham45:
I've altered the SQL DB to support negative IDs successfully (http://omnimaga.org/oldsitetest/)

DJ Omnimaga:
Yeah I saw earlier. Awesome :D. Are every post (besides the 230000+ duplicates or so) orderable correctly?

Also you messed up the skin at oldsite2. Some gradients are missing D:

This is how it should look like: http://djomni.57o9.org/oldboardmergedsmf/

Art_of_camelot:
I agree with DJ. If it's possible, I'd integrate them with the current board.

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