TFM DF Migration FAQ

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What will be the changes during/after the migration?

We are trying to keep the migration as smooth as possible. But intermittent troubles are to be expected. During migration, posting will be disabled. And, some topics may not be available for viewing.

You have to get used to the new style of posting and viewing the DF. It sounds a bit complicated at first, but after a few posts you'll find it user friendly. We'll try to help to shorten the learning curve.

Registration

First and foremost, you have to register to create topics or post replies. (But you can view all topics without registration.) Pl do it ASAP (link on top). It is FREE, just takes a few secs.

Topic list view

In addition to the new phpBB style of topic list view, we are trying to keep the old style of viewing topics: So you have the option of staying with current TFM DF topic browsing style, while also having phpBB features, etc. Best of both worlds!

Topics

As mentioned above, all good topics will be transfered. Every post will be transferred too, except if the topic has too many old responses, and requires lot of space. We'll just link it to old responses, in this case. We won't delete the files in old TFM DF for quite sometime.

Poster details

Unfortunately, your old names and emails cannot be linked your ids. So your 'No. of posts' in the new forum will not include your old posts. All the transferred posts will appear as posted by Oldposts.
The post details can be found in the subject of corresponding post, including time of post. Some details may have been truncated due to subject length limits.

Posting

You have to get used to the new method. See 'Welcome to the new TFM DF' thread.

Bookmarks

If you have bookmarked a page (i.e. added to Favorites), no need to worry. Once the new site comes up, it will be automatically redirected to the corresponding thread in new TFM DF.

These are the fundamental ones. Others will be posted in due course.