I'm currently backing up the old forums, in case they go down.
Fixing the url isn't such a hard thing anyway, I have done harder stuff

Also, those "Linux" dates are just seconds since epoch (January 1, 1970). PHP et all have very good support for this

I'm currently backing up the old forums, in case they go down.
Fixing the url isn't such a hard thing anyway, I have done harder stuff

Also, those "Linux" dates are just seconds since epoch (January 1, 1970). PHP et all have very good support for this

Ah ok, when I tried backing them up and tried one of the HTML page generated from HTTrack, it would randomly freeze Opera during about 10 minutes.

As for the timestamps, the problem is that SMF and mods for it lacks the support to sort topics by last post timestamps/date  or topic start timestamp/date. It actually sorts by last post ID or by topic start ID, depending of which you choose. So basically if the old posts were imported in here, they would all show above the rest instead of below, because even though their date would be older, their IDs would be newer. Changing the current post IDs is out of the question, because all links will be broken.

One solution, however, could be to just increment the old board IDs anyway, then modify the Custom Board Sort mod (and if necessary, write a mod that modifies the behavior of Last reply default sorting) so that any topic ending with post IDs from a certain range gets sorted at the bottom of the pile and if a board is sorted by topic start date, have topics from a certain ID range be sorted at the bottom too.

Well as I said, the main issue is if we don't want to break all links through the 228000 posts on the current board, then we have to make the old posts so they have higher ID numbers than new ones, and this is where the problem arises: SMF appears to sort topics by last reply ID instead of timestamp. The author of the Custom Board Sort mod claims otherwise about his mod, though, so maybe it could be solved with that (Juju would need to check if we run the latest version). Merging by itself seems like it might be easier, since the instructions are available somewhere on SMF site, the problem is just choosing between having all old posts appearing above most of the new ones, breaking all post links like what happened to United-TI two years ago or writing/modifying an SMF mod.

It would be really great, though, to have all old posts merged here, all sorted into the current categories. The projects and ideas board would end up having over 65000 posts too