Pregunta sobre el script de importación de vBulletin

[ravenzachary]

Hola a todos. Me estoy preparando para realizar una prueba de importación desde vBulletin a Discourse. Tengo algunas preguntas.

1. Cuando se realice la importación, ¿recibirá automáticamente un correo electrónico de notificación cada usuario importado después del proceso? Queremos realizar una migración de prueba antes de llevar a cabo la migración real y preferimos que no se envíen correos electrónicos a los usuarios durante esta prueba. Queremos validar que la migración funcione antes de proceder con ella.

2. Cuando los usuarios son migrados y acceden al nuevo sitio, ¿cómo asocia Discourse a un usuario histórico que fue migrado con un usuario que llega a Discourse? ¿Deben usar la misma dirección de correo electrónico que el usuario migrado?

Gracias.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@ravenzachary

will every user who is imported automatically get an email notification after the import process?

I generally either disable email or configure Discourse such that it can’t send email. They will get summary emails if you’re not careful.

You probably want to turn on login required and/or the don’t-index-this-site (I forget the name) system variables so that Google doesn’t index it too.

@ravenzachary

how does Discourse associate a historical user who was migrated over with a user coming to Discourse?

They’ll need to do a “forgot password” (but you might check out Migrated password hashes support) to get connected with their old account. If someone tries to register for an account with an email address that already exists they won’t be able to since the email address is already a user.

Some number of people will have forgotten what email address they used when they created their account and will whine about it. You’ll have to get them to convince you that they are that person and change the email address for them.

[michaeld (Michael - Communiteq)]

@pfaffman

Some number of people will have forgotten what email address they used when they created their account and will whine about it. You’ll have to get them to convince you that they are that person and change the email address for them.

We generally recommend users to use their email address to log in to the new forum for the first time because the import changes a (generally very small percentage) of usernames because the Discourse username rules are more strict.

So if someone has forgotten the email address they’ve registered with, they will be able to login with their username/password in 99% of the cases if you are using the migrate paasword plugin. And in the rare case they forgot their email address and their username belongs to one of the few that were changed, you’ll only need to tell them the new username that corresponds with the old username. No convincing needed.