It’s simple enough, a database is basically a big fancy spreadsheet, with many sheets and many references between them. The more difficult thing to do, having imported all of the users and comments, … (View Post)

That looks relatively straightforward, a MySQL file with almost the entire DB of users and comments. Wordpress will hopefully have a similar import facility (or Claude can write one relatively quickl… (View Post)

Correct. You probably have a table called USERS with fields ID USERNAME PASSWORD (hash) DATE_CREATED DATE_UPDATED etc. You then have a table called COMMENTS with fields COMMENT_ID DATE_TIME USER_ID C… (View Post)

If you can get the data out of Vanilla in SQL or similar format, it should be easy enough to batch create accounts on Wordpress to import the users list, then write a script to email everyone with a … (View Post)

Interesting development. Apparently China is weighing in on the war in Ukraine, telling the Russians in no uncertain terms to step away from the nuclear button, after a bunch of crazy comments from L… (View Post)