Hi Peter,
Closed boards will not be migrated. So, yes, if there is any information you want to keep off of a board in the old system, you should do that before the end of October (tentative date for closing this system but better to do it now than expect that date moves out)
I would scan through both closed and open board posts that you might have saved just to make sure but you will have time after the migration to save things.
Jen
I am starting to find my way around the new site, but it is hard to equate old board name to new tag. E.g., under RB->Community, the last in the list is How Goes It?, but there is no tag listed after it.
How do you even get to the new site?
I answered your points in the new system so I can provide some links and help others who might have the same questions. I tagged you in that post so you should see a notification on your icon in the upper right.
What are you talking about? I thunk the new system does not come up until next week, yet some seem to be accessing it already.
Hi JeanDavid,
He’s a member of a service that converted this weekend…this board does go next weekend.
Jen
You should duplicate the traffic here so that people are more prepared for the transition.
Has any of the testing involved a board like METAR with over 100 posts per day?
The new system is live, but only limited services have been moved so far. E.g., the only premium boards … other than the company specific ones … I follow are three, so that is the only thing now on the new system for me.
I’ve been playing around over there today, and making myself a bit of a nuisance asking questions. Activity is very low, not surprisingly. Responses to my questions have been quick and informative.
As you would expect, everything related to posting and replying is a breeze. I even updated a message after posting! And others posted photos!
For the moment my starting point link is:
https://community.fool.com/latest.
That is as close as I’ve found to the link I use for these boards:
https://discussion.fool.com/FavoriteBoards.asp?sortby=date
Boards that were migrated had their names changed to Tags. In some cases similar boards were combined into a single Tag. All my subscribed boards that made the trip appear in the Tag list that controls what I see. So, as near as I can tell, the new link I posted above takes me to the closest thing to the old link of subscribed boards.
One thing that I dealt with - there were instructions somewhere, but I blundered into it - was dealing with Unread. Basically it defaulted to messages going back 7 years and more, perhaps everything, all marked with a time of the migration. There is a big Dismiss button that wiped all that out. I forgot to say how I got there… clicked on the hamburger menu symbol next to my avatar, then clicked on Unread.
One thing that helped me was that as of the moment of the migration I was up to date on my reading, no unread messages. So when I hit that Dismiss button I was only removing old stuff.
With all that, it is early days yet, and I’m sure I’ll be figuring it out for a long while.
Hi Jen,
If I’m understanding correctly, historical posts from open boards (e.g., the 284,000+ posts from Mechanical Investing and 86,000 posts from Saul’s board), will not be moved to the new platform?
Todd
RHinCT,
making myself a bit of a nuisance asking questions
You are definitely not a nuisance! That’s why us CMFs are here - to answer questions and help out. And even though I’ve been using the new boards for awhile now (Options got moved over some months ago), I’m still figuring out the the finer details. Just today I again tried to figure out the Notify feature, and couldn’t get it to do anything useful.
Bruce
um, will counselors be available for the traumatized? (asking for a friend) :^)
Here is one URL
Looks pretty busty and complicated, it will take some time getting used to it.
I happen to like minimalist design.
https://www.google.com/search?q=minimalist+web+design&ne…
Denny Schlesinger
If I’m understanding correctly, historical posts from open boards (e.g., the 284,000+ posts from Mechanical Investing and 86,000 posts from Saul’s board), will not be moved to the new platform?
That would be bad. I follow that board myself. So I just went onto one of the migrated boards, a paid board of course. It has messages from when the board was created in November of 2006. I don’t believe the open boards are to be treated any differently.
The list of messages is a list of threads, with avatars pictured for all (unless there are too man) participants on the thread, a count of Replies in the thread, a count of Likes, and of Views (zeroes to start for old messages, but it incremented on the message I read), and finally an Activity column. Activity is how recently there has been a post to the thread. All the columns are sortable; I sorted on Activity twice to bring the oldest to the top. I found it interesting to sort on Likes, which could be really interesting on Saul’s board.
One thing we have here but not there is the individual message number, and its “Go To” feature. I didn’t use it much, and don’t expect to miss it.
I like minimalist designs, my Tesla Y’s dash an extreme example. I have found some very busy screens in the new side, but not so much in the ones where I’ll be spending my time.
I just tried out Search. I put in my handle, RHinCT. It returned messages where it appeared in the text, not a list of messages I’ve posted. For my posting activity I had to explore under my avatar. But I couldn’t edit the URL, changing my handle to someone else, and get their activity.
I think having a recognizable avatar will be worth it there.
That would be bad. I follow that board myself.
That should have been I follow Saul’s board. I could have fixed that in the new system. 
That should have been I follow Saul’s board. I could have fixed that in the new system.
and “very busy screens in the new side,” 
Is there a time limit on editing posts? I hope so!
The Captain
Is there a time limit on editing posts? I hope so!
I’m not sure, memory laps. What I am sure of is that it preserves the original (and any interim versions), and anyone can see it. They have to go look, but it is available.
How do you even get to the new site?
Good question. Is there a new address such as www.fool-new.com or some such?
The shortcut I use to get there, and show me the most recent activity:
What I am sure of is that it preserves the original (and any interim versions), and anyone can see it. They have to go look, but it is available.
That is the original hypertext! (Project Xanadu) by Ted Nelson, nothing was ever deleted.
The invention of hypertext[edit]
Starting in 1963, Ted Nelson developed a model for creating and using linked content he called “hypertext” and “hypermedia” (first published reference 1965).[6] Ted Nelson said in the 1960s that he began implementation of a hypertext system he theorized which was named Project Xanadu, but his first and incomplete public release was finished much later, in 1998.[5] He later worked with Andries van Dam to develop the Hypertext Editing System (HES) in 1967 at Brown University. HES was the first hypertext system available on commercial equipment that novices could use, and it didn’t have arbitrary limits on text lengths.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hypertext#The_inven…
Denny Schlesinger