Does transition of Ubuntu Forums include migration of useful posts

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Discourse also has a canned responses feature.
It’s lightly used right now, but that can change. Available to anybody.

  1. Create a Reply or a PM
  2. Hit CTRL+SHIFT+I
  3. Pick a “template” from the list

Any user can create a template in the Documentation/Templates area.

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I’ve always found this thread to be very useful.

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Before the transition, mörgæs contacted me about the thread. He said it would be great if it could be moved here but that he will not have the time to maintain it.

Is there anybody who could/would be interested?

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It is a interesting topic… That does peak my attention … (although I cant navigate to the UF … too lazy to see why my ISP link times out although traceroute is really not hard, hmm let me try way back time machine)
OK way back time machine worked …
I asked what was involved ?
Yep see now, what mörgæs was doing.
I don’t think I would be a fit /or a replacement for the task he was performing.

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In another post @ian-weisser said the forums would remain read-only and someone was going to archive the contents. What’s the status of all that, because

  1. the forums are now inaccessible to the world. Yet remain indexed on search engines for the time being:
    • “vBulletin Message / The administrator may have required you to register before you can view this page.”
  2. Wayback Machine does very-very poorly with these forum engines that insisted on putting session IDs in HTML links. For example:
  • Main page https://web.archive.org/web/20250501014516/https://ubuntuforums.org/index.php
  • “New to Ubuntu” section link is the epitome of this behavior: https://web.archive.org/web/20250501014516/https://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=326&s=19209238e61a7b25e07503bdd7f5f3dd unsuprisingly, it’s not archived. But this is also true for pure thread links too. It’s simply how the Internet Archive crawler operates.

If you want to preserve history over at IA/WBM, this will need to be an orchestrated effort and quite some public traffic. In this regard I disagree with a selective approach, while the data is still there.

PS: “New users are only allowed 2 links per post”. Sure Discourse, because internal links must be considered evil too?

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@vadcx

There are many issues involved with the mammoth task of archiving the Ubuntu Forums and more than a few stakeholders involved in the process.

We are working on it, please be patient.

As far as your comment about links, please read this:
https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/

One of the fundamental cornerstones of Discourse is trust; the more trust a user earns, the more privileges they also gain.

Thanks.

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