On Jun 17, 2013 5:41 PM, "Lunar" <lu...@torproject.org> wrote: > > Runa A. Sandvik: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Lunar <lu...@torproject.org> wrote: > > > One of the concern that was raised by Moritz is export capabilities of > > > Stack Exchange. How likely are we to switch to a self-hosted application > > > if it means losing data that had taken a lot of energy to assemble in > > > the first place? > > > > Who said we will lose data? AskBot supports importing data from Stack > > Exchange (I have not tested it myself, so I don't know how much work > > it requires): http://askbot.org/doc/import-data.html > > Moritz mentioned that we would not be able to migrate user/reputation. > As such Q&A websites have an important social component (karma, badges, > and so on), volunteers who would have invested time and energy to build > a good reputation could be turned away by loosing all their stats > overnight. > > Overall, I am not afrad of the import part: AskBot is free software. > It's getting data out of Stack Exchange that I am wondering about. > > Looks like at least most data (except user logins, emails and passwords) > could be retrieved through <http://data.stackexchange.com/>, but it > looks a bit tedious to get a full export. Also, given there's a CAPTCHA, > I am not sure backups could be automated.
Did they stop doing the database dumps? -tom _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
