Administrators Nathan Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 Everyone welcome the new members from GeekSoup.net! As of last night I purchased the website GeekSoup.net as it is in a similar niche to us. Since I have imported all the members and threads/posts. Let me know if you see anything out of place. For any users that came from GeekSoup.net please make sure to update you avatar pictures as they didn't come over during the conversion. Might want to update your profile in general. If you were previously a moderator on GeekSoup.net please get in touch with me if you are still interested in being involved. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Everyone should be able to login with existing username and passwords Click here to view the article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Great news! We just started back up and I got an offer I couldn't refuse from Nathan. It's great to see it's now in hands of someone as dedicated as Nathan. Hope to see you all around! Microsuck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Tony Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 Exciting News!! It'll be nice to have 2 communities working as 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 well done this forum growing fast longs you can keep it fresh then its going places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHiLL Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Hey! I'm glad GeekSoup has been revived and merged with this forum. Looks thing things will go swimmingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Awesome! I've seen mergers go wrong before, but this seems to be a good fit for topics. Hopefully the new people will feel right at home here. Welcome GeekSoupers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeTheLobster Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I wondered who those funny-looking people were... welcome to the fun-house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryce12 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Welcome GeekSoup members. Hope you like it here Nathan can you share the best practices and learnings from the merger project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted March 11, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted March 11, 2012 Sure, it really wasn't too difficult, just time consuming. First off setup a dev environment if you don't already have one. Then you can mess with importing the database via the converters supplied by you forum software. This can take a few hours until you get the desired results. Then it's easy just backup your production database first then import. After that the imported boards should be hidden to regular members. You then have to spend the time going through each thread and then decide where to move it to within your board. After it's all done send out an email letting everyone know what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkGizmo Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Awesome job guys! I'm tempted to buy a forum and merge it into Revillution as well. I'm not quite sure about it yet due to a few things but congrats on the merge, DB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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