Mutated posts and threads during migration.

dtuxcomp

h_henna Hey folks,

Thanks for highlighting this.
It seems that the links to other places in the community are working fine but the links to the KB are broken, is this the same for you? or are both not working?

Hi Henna,

I've just checked and the helpers updates thread is now working fine, so the fix jatap mentioned here looks to have worked. I can also get into the Labs area no problem, so I'm hoping the fixes are spreading.

dtuxcomp

mrjeeves This has now been fixed so when you get a second could you edit your post to say "fixed" or something please.

Thanks - D.

h_henna

Awesome! We're working on fixing the links to the KB articles in the helpers updates thread too =]

alex_w

h_henna They should all hopefully redirect to the correct locations from some point today.

dtuxcomp

brulaw Wonderfully put my friend, great to see someone embracing the changes despite having issues 🙂 Sorry for the delay I've been chasing breadcrumbs rebuilding my tips menu, it's not pretty but I think I'm getting there 😉 🙂

Hopefully we can help each other to fix these bits as much as poss so there's not such a backlog of threads and posts needing attention by Ian.

jatap

dtuxcomp That's great, once we know it's fixed we can mark that one off the list so to speak

Fixed 😃

dtuxcomp

jatap Fixed 😃

Brilliant !!! Another GG bug splatted 🙂 🙂

dtuxcomp

alex_w Brilliant !!! The whole team are doing an amazing job, congratulations to all ❤️

h_henna

Awesome stuff! Thanks @alex_w and all you lovely folk for bearing with us!

Happy Friday! x

flaxvert

Posts 1, 4, 6 and 8 of the following thread are really important to me as they are my guides for the Help forum. Anything you can get back will help, I can fix format issues when I have the text. https://community.giffgaff.com/d/6948342-replies-to-questions-in-help-the-giffgaff-bible

brulaw

flaxvert

Hi Flax .... good to see you posting , hope all is good with you .

dtuxcomp

flaxvert Hi mate, thanks for adding to the list, saves poor @ianmorland also having to work through a ton of threads of this nature 🙂

I found with my tips menu it was fairly easy to chase down all the threads, I've just go to get round to gradually adding in the formatting as I get time and double checking all the content is still current as some of them I haven't gone back to in a long time 🙂

Good luck with getting yours sorted and if I can help in any way give me a shout mate 🙂

ianmorland

flaxvert I've re-instated post 1 from that thread, using a copy/paste method from the Lithium export data.. The content is there, as well as some of the layout.

I'd strongly recommend simply using the text as a guide and rebuilding the thread from scratch, as things like @ mentions, spoilers, and so on will not be easy to re-insert by editing (due to the format differences between Lithium and Flarum). What you'll see on this post, is essentially a HTML post, and as you know, Flarum does not technically support them 😉

I'll wait to hear your thoughts on this before I recover any other posts... Do let me know if you run into any issues!

ianmorland

flaxvert I should add, that this is simply one method I can use to recover posts, if this is not successful, I'm happy to try a couple of other ideas 🙂

flaxvert

dtuxcomp

ianmorland Nice job, considering you're having to work back from HTML to Markdown it must be a right PITA with it being supposed to go the other way 🙂

flaxvert

ianmorland That is brilliant thanks, I will spend a good couple of days editing and playing with the format to make it useable, adding the @'s and things.

I usually embed videos to my replies when required, such as the sim swap youtube video, is this still possible for me? On Lithium I was made up to a vlogger which gave me the right to add vids.

Cheers, Flax

dtuxcomp

flaxvert For some of the platforms you can just drop the link direct into the post and it'll embed the video, this is a youTube one.

All I did was paste the link and the platform does the embedding itself. There was a list somewhere of which ones work, think that might have been on the preview version though. Good luck with the rebuild of your thread, I've barely started on my tips menu, just got all the links in there so far, got a lot of formatting and double checking to get round to 🙂

ianmorland

flaxvert That is brilliant thanks, I will spend a good couple of days editing and playing with the format to make it useable, adding the @'s and things.

You're more than welcome. When you're done with that post, let me know and I'll pull in a few more for you.

flaxvert I usually embed videos to my replies when required, such as the sim swap youtube video, is this still possible for me? On Lithium I was made up to a vlogger which gave me the right to add vids.

As @dtuxcomp has already said, YouTube (and many other sites) are now supported for a direct embed into posts, and is open to all members 🙂 Our anti-spam measures should take care of anything undesirable, plus the reporting flow is now quite streamlined, so anything that slips thru the net can be handled quickly by the Eds..

Ian

flaxvert

WICKED!!! hahaha

Hopefully that won't be allowed for everyone though, weve seen before how adverts and spam can creep into the forum 😮

dtuxcomp

flaxvert Currently it's open for all members, hopefully it'll stay that way as it's a great feature, we'll all just have to keep on top of reporting the dodgy posts quickly.

Have fun adding these into your threads mate 🙂

jesi23

flaxvert Hi, Steve.

Just a couple of thoughts …

You can now use any not yet activated SIM to do SIM swap
All ‘self-service’ actions can only be performed between 4:30 am and 9:30 pm
it can take up to 24 hrs for full activation, just like initial activation
the Knowledge Base isn’t yet fully working (and is simplified) due to platform restrictions

Some of your videos need updating, I think … see @henna_h or Anton (@antonlg) for more information.

🤡

ianmorland

Thanks for creating this thread dtuxcomp

I will indeed check into posts with missing content and/or formatting issues when I return from my holidays.

To set some expectations for posts with issues, please note the following

I’m currently on holiday, and my first day back in the office is Monday 9th September, so please don’t expect any fixes until then at the earliest
Missing content is guaranteed to be restorable
Screwey formatting will be on a best effort basis, as many of the HTML based tricks used on Lithium are not available in Flarum/markdown
Fixing of posts will be on a case by case basis, and is a very manual exercise

Due to the manual nature of these fixes, a link, directly to the post(s) in question would really be appreciated. To get a permalink to any post, tap/click on the time stamp next to your membername in the post, you’ll see a pop up with the post number, and the permalink 🙂