The old UAMF, now migrated from Forumer/Yuku to TapaTalk
Posted: January 18th, 2013, 4:30 pm
Update, Oct 2017. Our old site has been migrated (rehosted) yet again: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/gregersfr/ will get you there.
Many, if not all, of the comments below are still applicable, except the new host is TapaTalk, not Yuku. We still intend to do little about them as it is an archive. Most involve broken links in the Galleries which would require members to search out their builds on the old site then update the links in the Gallery.
The Admin Team
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Long story short, the old site was hosted on Forumer which is now gone, replaced by Yuku.
Our old site was migrated (rehosted) by them: http://gregers.fr.yuku.com will get you there.
Our old site was maintained as a Read-Only Archive as it represented a number of years of our history. There are numerous links from here back into the old site.
In the process previously registered users were sent an email by Yuku to allow them to change password and sign in on the new site. As we will maintain it as a Read-Only Archive, there is really no need to have a password, sign in, etc -- you can see everything there as a Guest.
We have made only minor changes on the rehosted site, mostly to change the skin to something less green, and expect to do little else to it.
Some simple testing has determined that:
-- Yuku has set up a re-direct of Forumer links to Yuku.
-- All the re-directs we set up (ie, see past GB's) work just fine - you click on the link here and you'll end up there.
-- Likewise all 'pure' forum or topic references in your posts all work.
-- References inside a topic, such as to a page/post inside your old workbench, do not work - you will end up at the top of the forum, not lost in space.
-- Links to pictures should all work because, unless there was an exception, we did not actually store pix on Forumer but on 3rd party sites like photobucket. Red-X's should only represent pictures users have deleted and not migration problems.
-- There may be 'smilies' or other icons we had built up over the years that did not migrate; you may just see text representations.
We do not plan to try an automated conversion of links in this forum from Forumer to Yuku.
-- We have been told that the redirects will remain indefinitely, so there is no rush.
-- There is not an obvious conversion from one to another due to vastly different schemes.
-- It won't solve the broken 'internal links'.
We have started a manual conversion of our forum level (or topic) redirects to direct links - this will make access faster and 'safer' simply because we eliminate the 'middleman'.
For now, we recommend that users not worry about converting links because the redirects work, except for the 'internal ones', and usage is not that high. The impact of the broken 'internal ones' to this site is that some references to build threads in the Galleries will not go to the desired place but to the top of the forum. This would obviously also be true in other places, but the Gallery is the only site-level forum impacted that we know of.
We have no plan to fix the 'broken' Gallery links at this time, nor do we intend to delete Gallery entries just because those links are broken. For now, we would encourage users to look though their entries, identify broken links, and try to determine a new correct link on the 'Yuku forum' -- you can make the correction with a simple Edit. If any help is needed, please ask.
So, here we are. If you have any questions about, or problems with, the new-old/rehosted/Yuku site, please ask them here.
Thanks,
The Admin Team
Many, if not all, of the comments below are still applicable, except the new host is TapaTalk, not Yuku. We still intend to do little about them as it is an archive. Most involve broken links in the Galleries which would require members to search out their builds on the old site then update the links in the Gallery.
The Admin Team
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Long story short, the old site was hosted on Forumer which is now gone, replaced by Yuku.
Our old site was migrated (rehosted) by them: http://gregers.fr.yuku.com will get you there.
Our old site was maintained as a Read-Only Archive as it represented a number of years of our history. There are numerous links from here back into the old site.
In the process previously registered users were sent an email by Yuku to allow them to change password and sign in on the new site. As we will maintain it as a Read-Only Archive, there is really no need to have a password, sign in, etc -- you can see everything there as a Guest.
We have made only minor changes on the rehosted site, mostly to change the skin to something less green, and expect to do little else to it.
Some simple testing has determined that:
-- Yuku has set up a re-direct of Forumer links to Yuku.
-- All the re-directs we set up (ie, see past GB's) work just fine - you click on the link here and you'll end up there.
-- Likewise all 'pure' forum or topic references in your posts all work.
-- References inside a topic, such as to a page/post inside your old workbench, do not work - you will end up at the top of the forum, not lost in space.
-- Links to pictures should all work because, unless there was an exception, we did not actually store pix on Forumer but on 3rd party sites like photobucket. Red-X's should only represent pictures users have deleted and not migration problems.
-- There may be 'smilies' or other icons we had built up over the years that did not migrate; you may just see text representations.
We do not plan to try an automated conversion of links in this forum from Forumer to Yuku.
-- We have been told that the redirects will remain indefinitely, so there is no rush.
-- There is not an obvious conversion from one to another due to vastly different schemes.
-- It won't solve the broken 'internal links'.
We have started a manual conversion of our forum level (or topic) redirects to direct links - this will make access faster and 'safer' simply because we eliminate the 'middleman'.
For now, we recommend that users not worry about converting links because the redirects work, except for the 'internal ones', and usage is not that high. The impact of the broken 'internal ones' to this site is that some references to build threads in the Galleries will not go to the desired place but to the top of the forum. This would obviously also be true in other places, but the Gallery is the only site-level forum impacted that we know of.
We have no plan to fix the 'broken' Gallery links at this time, nor do we intend to delete Gallery entries just because those links are broken. For now, we would encourage users to look though their entries, identify broken links, and try to determine a new correct link on the 'Yuku forum' -- you can make the correction with a simple Edit. If any help is needed, please ask.
So, here we are. If you have any questions about, or problems with, the new-old/rehosted/Yuku site, please ask them here.
Thanks,
The Admin Team