Thousands of old YWN CR threads dismembered

[Joseph]

When upgrading the CR software several months ago, a large percentage of the old threads became dismembered with a) one thread being cut up into six or more threads and b) individual posts having multiple paragraphs truncated and cut off at either the beginning or end of the post and c) Hebrew quotes from Seforim being turned into question marks.

[☕ DaasYochid ☕]

The question marks thing really annoys me.

[YW Moderator-💯]

Can you please provide some links to threads being split, and paragraphs being cut off?

[Joseph]

These are just some quick examples. There are far more than just these.

Truncated posts:
(You need to compare it to how the thread looked before the upgrade to really see the difference to notice what’s missing. This can be done by using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.)

Missing some beginning paragraphs:

Kollel – Talmud Torah Kneged Kulam

Missing some beginning paragraphs in the OP:

I’ve also seen posts with ending paragraphs missing.

Single thread split into multiple threads:

SYMS Thanksgiving BASH Begins Nov. 20th

SYMS Thanksgiving BASH Begins Nov. 20th

On My Mind; What the Hasidim Know

On My Mind; What the Hasidim Know

On My Mind; What the Hasidim Know

On My Mind; What the Hasidim Know

A Flag, on a Hill

A Flag, on a Hill

A Flag, on a Hill

A Flag, on a Hill

And many, many more.

[Joseph]

Missing some beginning paragraphs in the OP:

Modern Orthodox Judaism

[Neville ChaimBerlin]

Wow. Those links totally messed up the whole page for me.

[Joseph]

Besides the links bring broken (messing up pages), as seen above, the page count, page numbers, link to last post and last poster are all messed up with them being inaccurate with the number count and not always properly linking to the last page when clicking the last comment link.

[Joseph]

When converting the CR from the old software to the new, most large posts got cut down to one or two lines. This lost many thousands of old posts.

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