After being a depository for information and discussions on the Unity sport engine for over a decade Unity Boards are being shut down the top of July. Of their stead the content material shall be merged with Unity Discussions and hopefully not an excessive amount of data shall be misplaced within the course of.
Unity have introduced particulars of the timeline of the upcoming closure (paradoxically sufficient on Unity Boards):
The transition will occur as follows.
- The brand new design and construction of Unity Discussions shall be user-tested in a closed beta.
- The information shall be migrated to Discussions. That is already in progress.
- We attempt to attenuate the interval throughout which Boards and Discussions are unavailable to customers. You’ll be notified prematurely of the dates when every web site will go read-only. Beneath is the high-level plan:
- Mid-July: The Unity boards will turn out to be read-only and stay on this state till they’re shut down. Throughout this time, you may proceed to publish your questions by means of Unity Discussions Q&A.
- Proper earlier than the Boards shut down on the finish of July, Unity Discussions will turn out to be read-only for about two days to finalize the migration.
- Redirects for migrated discussion board content material shall be arrange to make sure that previous hyperlinks to discussion board posts will proceed to work with out interruption.
Fortunately they’re planning emigrate many of the necessary data in addition to create redirects which is able to hopefully decrease the injury completed to current search outcomes:
The Information migrated consists of:
- Customers:
- All legitimate person accounts that created no less than 1 publish or 1 like shall be migrated.
- If a discussion board person already has an account in Unity Discussions, their account data and information shall be added to their current account.
- Avatars shall be migrated except the prevailing Discussions accounts have already got an avatar chosen.
- Publish and like historical past shall be migrated.
- Signatures shall be appended to person bios in Unity Discussions, however they’ll now not seem below person posts.
- Account settings is not going to be migrated.
- Matters (threads) and posts:
- All matters with no less than 1 reply.
- All matters youthful than 90 days, together with matters with out replies.
- All workers matters.
- All sticky threads.
- Matters and posts with no less than 1 reply or 1 like, however no exercise in additional than 12 months shall be migrated as “closed”.
- Present Discussion board thread and publish URLs shall be preserved as redirects to their new matching content material.
- Embedded media shall be migrated.
- Quotes, code blocks, inline codes, collapsable sections, and styling choices supported by markdown shall be migrated.
- BB code formatting for font kind, font measurement, font colour, and textual content alignment is not going to be migrated.
- Non-public messages:
- All personal messages of migrated person accounts shall be migrated.
- Attachments:
- All attachments which have file names shall be migrated.
You may study extra concerning the closing of the Unity Boards and the migration to Unity Discussions within the video beneath.
