Will we be getting any of the old posts?
We had some interesting threads in there...
Our current plan is that we'll keep the Delphi forum open read-only for the time being, so people can look at the archives there. I don't know that there's any easy way to archive it or transfer it here, though.
There only seem to be 760 threads. I suppose it should be possible to pull them in with something like wget and then write a script (e.g. in Perl) to scrub them.
I don't know how importing them into phpBB would work especially regarding attribution.
Keeping them as a bunch of HTML pages shouldn't be too difficult, but the benefits over keeping them on Delphi would be minor - an issue of control over the archives' hosting, mostly.
While that's way beyond my personal technical knowledge, it (having them archived as simple HTML pages) sure sounds like it would be a good thing to do.
Did anything more come of this? Will we be able to search the old posts?
One of our loyal forums-goers actually pulled everything out of Delphi for me in HTML. Unfortunately, it doesn't want to play nice with the CSS we use for our website. Until I can get my sister the web developer to come up from Madison and take a look at it, I'm afraid we're going to be stuck using Delphi as our archive.
Fair enough. Thanks. 
If you give me some guidelines, I'm willing to try to make it fit better. I had just tried for a reasonable layout.
It's up now! See Atlas Games Delphi Forum ARCHIVE
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