Resolved: Regarding my forums

Posted by Nalicter on Jul 19, 2008; 8:04am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Resolved-Regarding-my-forums-tp548131.html

It seems to me that with the changes in the forums, there are quite a few resulting problems that, with the current options, will take forever to fix. Are you planning on implementing the merge feature (or at least the ability to move all posts in a forum to another forum)?

I'm thinking it's just too much to deal with. I had no idea the move to Nabble 2 meant the loss of multiple parents (otherwise I would have taken precautions first, and all would be well—well, most would be well).

Anyway, I need to know if the forum merge feature will become available, as whether or not it will be available drastically affects the outcome. In either case, however, I intend to delete a lot of forums. Forum merging would prevent me from needing to delete so many forums that actually have a lot of good posts in them (I'm not going to bother moving the posts one by one, as I'd never have time to finish the task).

Anyway, if forum merging is going to be allowed, I can wait until it comes about, do some stuff, and then get back to you.

Otherwise, here is a request I have of you (doing it manually would take way too much time that I'm not willing to invest, and I'm sure you have the ability to do this fairly easily):

Have all my forums deleted except for the following:
Fantasy Writing
Dream Analysis
Poetry Critique

If the posts in the other forums still need a home, feel free to merge them all together into a single forum (except those above). That might be an idea for you, actually. I mean have a single forum for Nabble where posts without a forum go (like a lost and found). Just a thought.

At that point, I would recreate some of my forums (don't worry: not tons of them) in the desired fashion (believe it or not, that, and taking the time to promote them, would take a lot less time than fixing the current ones; some of them needed fixing anyway).

If the merge feature will be available, I would want to merge several forums, and then ask you to delete all of them except for a few.

Anyway, if you can't delete all these except for the few desired, I'm wondering if you could just delete them all, and I'll start over from there. Let me know about the merge thing before doing anything, though, if you would.

Also, if you delete them all, be sure not to delete any of nadiag's forums: i.e. Best Recipes and most of its children (they're connected with one of mine).

Thanks!