Possible import of some EAv2 threads

[fhunter]

If needed - I can try writing parsing script to clean it up (similar to a way I parsed stories). Python and BeautifulSoup can go a loooong way.

Converting formatting into phpBB formatting can be pretty easy. After that - it should be drag and drop, more or less. But I am not sure how to preserve the poster names and so on.

[WheelyFixed]

That is why I think having the testing / playground area is a good idea. It will give us a place to experiment with cleaning up the threads and verifying that we have something usable...

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[dandelion]

When I looked into it last year, I couldn't find an official function to import into phpBB. Importing directly into the database is beyond my skills so I stopped right there.

[WheelyFixed]

This is why I keep saying we need a 'playground' to experiment in... My thought as to a possible approach would be to look at whether we could do a script that would simply act to post messages (or threads) as a user... Effectively something like your story posting bot, only probably a bit more sophisticated...

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