Runa A. Sandvik: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Lunar <lunar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Lunar <lunar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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