We announced in our previous post that we are migrating the site to a different platform and web host. We have evaluated several question and answer platforms including OSQA, Shapado, Askbot, and Reddit’s platform. Among those platforms, we chose OSQA and it will be hosted under WebFaction.
OSQA has the closest look and feel to Stack Exchange. Our migration tests on OSQA instances preserved all important data including questions, answers, tags, user profiles, reputation points, and badges. OSQA also has a public work plan where everyone can login, vote, and comment on issues. And since OSQA is open-source, everybody can also help with the development.
WebFaction was recommended by the guys working on OSQA, so we’ll take their word for it. Other OSQA sites have also been hosted under WebFaction, and so far we haven’t heard any complaints, which is a good thing.
So here’s the plan: we will start the migration on June 11, 2010 at 10pm, Manila time. That means only the questions and answers posted before that time will be migrated to the new server. To make sure that no content is posted during migration, we will bring the site down and put up a page saying “undergoing system maintenance.” If everything goes as planned, the site should be up again in less than 30 minutes. One clue that the site has been migrated successfully is the repositioned search field (this will be modified in future releases).
And just to make sure that we can all log in to our accounts after the migration, add an alternate OpenID to your accounts using myOpenID. To do that, go to your profile page, click the edit link and add your myOpenID url to the Alt OpenID field.
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Good luck with the migration, and looking forward to the new site!
I’m unable to log-in properly to my old/existing account. Was using Google OpenId to authenticate.
Now, if I login using the same Google OpenId it asks me for my screen name and email address—but if I supply my Gmail address it says that email address is already taken.
On the other hand, if I try password recovery and request a temporary login session it says “an email has been sent to your email address” but I don’t get anything in my inbox.
I don’t want to “create a new account” using my Google OpenId…
Hey Alistair, we haven’t found the cause of the problem yet. The quick fix would be to send us your myopenid.com username so you can use that to log in to your old/existing account. After logging in, you can add other OpenID providers to your profile including your Google OpenID.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
For other bug reports or feature requests, we’ve setup http://meta.nullpointer.ph/.