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Text Conversion: Futanari Palace staff had the great idea to search in some old .tar.gz files for old versions of stories posted on FP. I could find a lot of them older texts/stories therein. Now the Database queries (SQL) are running to do the text conversion into Unicode properly (with the proper SQL conversion function) and to figure out which post IDs match. I am now 14 days into running them SQL queries on separate tables. So far, about 2 of roughly 8 big SQL-queries are through.

Update 30th january: 2 more queries ran through.  Now I am facing the problem that the old database did NOT store editing times. So I can not easily tell where stories might have changed/received updates in between the current forum's database and the old database. So to be able to safely overwrite Forum's posts I have to additionally run some time intensive diff on the old texts and new texts, if the alterations to new posts where minor (like 2 % of all letters or so).  That'll take some more time.