WowStead Migration Data Now Live!
Ladies and gentlemen, the next stage of the migration is complete! The code has been pushed up to our live servers and the data is now available.
What's that? Where do you find it all? That's an excellent question!
Paid Time
You will be able to see your paid time in the Admin Menu -> Billing -> Crowd Pay Info area of the site. There will be a points credit on that page.
The credit is however many days' worth of paid time you had left on WowStead, plus three months, on our Ultimate plan. This includes things like not having advertisements on your site, and a whopping 60GB of image/file storage space (as compared to the 500MB on the paid WowStead plan).
Forum Archive
This is currently available to the site owner of your Guild Launch site, and can be found at the bottom of your forums on the Forums tab of your site. At the moment, it is only an archive, but it shows the forum layout and contains every post from your WowStead site, complete with the username of the poster.
In the next few weeks, we will be improving on this functionality so that you can import the data from that area to your new Guild Launch forums, but for the moment we wanted to make sure that the data was at least available on the site.
Gallery Transfer
This is available on the Image Gallery of your site. There is a Gallery tab on each site by default, but if it was removed, you can still access it here:
On that page, there will be a button underneath your current galleries if you have a WowStead Site ID attached to your Guild Launch site; click it and the site will migrate automatically!
When you click the button, you will be brought to a page where the image migration actually happens. Please do not click away from that until the migration is complete. It looks like this:
Possible questions:
1. I clicked the button to import my gallery, but it stopped! What do I do?
If you refresh the page, the button will still be there - click it again and you can continue the migration uninterrupted.
2. I don't see the button to import my gallery or my old WowStead forums!
If this is the case, then your site was not linked to a WowStead Site ID. Just forward me the email you received from Curse to support@guildlaunch.com and I can manually link them up on our end.
3. I don't see all of my forums from WowStead - what's going on?
Send us a screenshot of your old forums to support@guildlaunch.com and I will have our developers look into it.
[u]4. I don't see any of my data at all! And my site has ads! What's going on?[/url]
It sounds like your site wasn't tied to a WowStead ID. Forward the Curse email you received about the transfer to support@guildlaunch.com with your new Guild Launch site and I can link them up.
If you have any other questions or concerns, let us know!
UPDATE 8/16/2013 - 6:21PM EST
We've posted updates to Image Import and Forum Archive display that should fix the issues that you all have brought up here.
Namely:
1. Threads are now reverse sorted
2. Paging is properly live
3. Some forums that were not visible have been fixed
4. Image Galleries will not duplicate images when re-run
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About the Crowd Pay and credits: We don't need the massive amounts of storage at this time, so I downgraded our Target Plan to Level 1. So instead of 3 months at the Ultimate Plan, it looks like we now have 398 days of Level 1?? Does that mean 398 days of no ads?
Also, if we eventually get to a point where we need to ask for contributions from members to fund the site, is there a way to turn off the Contributors list? I'm not a fan of publicizing who contributes (and therefore who doesn't) in this manner.
Thanks for the help.
For the forum data issue, can you email me a link to your site to support@guildlaunch.com? We can look into it.
Mine too. I miss some parts of the old forum, i can see only 1-2-3 sections but not 4-5. For sections, i mean "Forum Title".
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@Rekse: Can you email me your site at support@guildlaunch.com with a screenshot of your WowStead forums? I'll assign it over to our developers to look into.
Same here as well. Actually, the missing posts are the more critical for us, recent posts in our raid strategy discussion forums...posts from 2011 and 2012 visible, but few from 2013.
Should we email or is this even fixable?
Same here as well. Actually, the missing posts are the more critical for us are more recent posts in our raid strategy discussion forums...posts from 2011 and 2012 visible, but nothing from 2013.
Should we email or is this even fixable?
Please email us a screenshot of your old WowStead forums to support@guildlaunch.com? I will assign it over to our developers.
@Rekse: Can you email me your site at support@guildlaunch.com with a screenshot of your WowStead forums? I'll assign it over to our developers to look into.
I did just now, 2 screenshot (the page was too long).
About the Crowd Pay and credits: We don't need the massive amounts of storage at this time, so I downgraded our Target Plan to Level 1. So instead of 3 months at the Ultimate Plan, it looks like we now have 398 days of Level 1?? Does that mean 398 days of no ads?
The import function should be wrapped up in the near future - it may be as early as next week.
As far as the Crowd Pay time goes, there was a bug in the system that was allowing this, but it was not intended. WowStead sites are flagged as Ultimate, not premium. Sorry for the confusion!
A screenshot of your old WowStead forums, not the posts themselves. Although, I've just talked to our developers and they pushed out a patch that may have resolved your issue.
Are you still missing forums on your archive?