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08-15-2018, 03:02 PM
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Because all I had to work with was the plain text of the old forum, yes, there's no way I'd have your credentials to log in. Also, because this is meant as a permanent historic record that acts as a time capsule, I do not want anyone logging in anyway, which is why I block the registration of new accounts.

I agree that seeing a better threaded view would be ideal. I don't know if it's possible to do that with the MyBB software, however. As you can see I did make an effort to keep all the parent-child relationships intact so it is theoretically possible, but it's definitely less than ideal with the current threaded view.

I did notice a number (perhaps on the order of 1000) of duplicate posts in the old site, apparently caused by some bug in the archiving process rather than accidental double-posting, and I removed these with the new site.

The spacing isn't always right in the message displays, but I haven't found a way around this. It seems to be a conflict between the HTML used for formatting on the data I scraped and the automatic formatting MyBB tries to do.
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Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 08-15-2018, 06:17 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Radtke - 08-15-2018, 06:23 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - ggauny@live.fr - 08-15-2018, 07:17 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Radtke - 08-15-2018, 07:29 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Didier Lachieze - 08-15-2018, 08:25 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Radtke - 08-15-2018, 09:00 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Steve Simpkin - 08-15-2018, 07:37 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Harald - 08-15-2018, 08:53 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Massimo Gnerucci - 08-15-2018, 09:07 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Sylvain Cote - 08-15-2018, 02:58 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 08-15-2018 03:02 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - rprosperi - 08-15-2018, 03:26 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Radtke - 08-15-2018, 03:29 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 08-15-2018, 03:43 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Radtke - 08-15-2018, 03:49 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Massimo Gnerucci - 08-15-2018, 06:13 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Zaphod - 08-15-2018, 06:14 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Dieter - 08-15-2018, 07:05 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eddie W. Shore - 08-16-2018, 12:57 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Zaphod - 08-16-2018, 05:52 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - pier4r - 08-16-2018, 04:05 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - sasa - 08-16-2018, 05:26 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 08-16-2018, 05:55 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Diego Diaz - 08-17-2018, 03:56 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Klemm - 08-17-2018, 09:03 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Diego Diaz - 08-18-2018, 07:11 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Ángel Martin - 08-19-2018, 05:52 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Jlouis - 08-19-2018, 07:57 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Bill Duncan - 08-20-2018, 02:24 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Egan Ford - 08-21-2018, 08:57 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - rprosperi - 08-21-2018, 11:47 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - sasa - 08-22-2018, 05:21 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 08-23-2018, 12:50 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 09-05-2018, 08:20 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Klemm - 09-06-2018, 06:13 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 09-06-2018, 08:06 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Klemm - 09-07-2018, 04:20 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - EdS2 - 09-07-2018, 09:20 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Sylvain Cote - 09-08-2018, 01:30 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Eric Rechlin - 09-07-2018, 09:23 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - EdS2 - 09-08-2018, 08:02 AM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Klemm - 01-06-2019, 04:38 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - rprosperi - 01-06-2019, 05:19 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - grsbanks - 01-06-2019, 06:55 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - SammysHP - 01-06-2019, 07:20 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - Thomas Klemm - 01-06-2019, 07:21 PM
RE: Old HP Museum Forum - rprosperi - 01-06-2019, 09:42 PM
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