We managed to migrate from flarum.amybo.org to discourse forum.amybo.org but the forum is now riddled with formatting issues. For example: @"Gerrit"#p174 I like the idea of a water based liquid (just like Rabaey's) so I checked out the [Nutrisorb Trace Minerals](https://www.biocare.co.uk/nutrisorb…

The time to fix those was when you did the import. As someone who does a lot of migrations, people launching a forum with botched formatting like this is one of my greatest concerns. It would have been pretty easy to fix the import script, and much harder to fix post hoc now that you’ve launched. It…

I believe you can use the posts:remap rake command (see Replace a string in all posts to achieve that); you should not have an edit with that command.

What do you mean? Like if you want to manage complex regular expressions, that’s not practical?

Right. You’re calling the task in a shell, so quickly figuring out whether you’re escaping Bash, Ruby, or the regex becomes difficult or impossible. Also, it looks like the fixes are not going to be simple replacements.

I’m new to discourse, but have now found how to access the raw, and yes it does contain all the HTML: https://forum.amybo.org/raw/56/9

Did you use the existing flarum_import.rb script? It’s hard to imagine that HTML is in the flarum p.content field (which is what goes into raw in the import script). I am pretty sure that flarum uses markdown, so I don’t know why you’d have HTML inraw. Or maybe the script is just that broken. But s…

Thanks Jay, I didn’t do the migration myself, so don’t know which script was used. The member who did is down with Flu, but I’ll point them to your excellent advice here, when they return.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 29, 2024, 2:42pm 4

That rake task is fine for simple replacements, but quickly gets unwieldy.

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