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September 30 is a pretty small window to migrate. Hopefully it's enough.

Alex3917 1y ago
At least with LLMs, we can just write a query to migrate the export to whatever target format we want. The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links.
- _verandaguy 1y ago
  Was this somehow not doable without LLMs? It's trivial data massaging.
  - Alex3917 1y ago
    I mean with LLMs you just copy-paste in the input format of your new CMS and then upload your export file. Even if it only took 15 minutes before, it now takes 0 minutes.
    - nicce 1y ago
      Old solutions scale 1000+ posts but this does not.
- cube00 1y ago
  It's too bad the LLMs will hallucinate and mess up the content while doing that migration.
  - qingcharles 1y ago
    I think the best way would be to get an LLM to write a script that would export/import the data, so it only writes the code, doesn't touch the data.
- jll29 1y ago
  > The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links. That is annoying indeed - it would be nice if the Web had some way to keep links eternally valid. But people didn't even manage Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to work beyond the death of the publishing companies that issued them... Perhaps links could be auto-replaced to archive.org links if they ceased to exist?
nonfamous 1y ago
Coincidentally, and fortunately, I was already in the process of migrating a blog with 10 year’s worth of content from TypePad. It’s not enough. TypePad’s export process is awful: the output is a poorly formatted .txt file which is hard to parse reliably. The export process itself fails at least half the time. There’s no export process for images or style files. Automated crawl processes fail. I LOL’ed at this part of the post: >> If you have any questions, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions page here. The “here” link 404s.
- scblock 1y ago
  That's unfortunate. Good luck.
- omg_ketchup 1y ago
  The link has a typo. It should point to: https://help.typepad.com/shutdown-faq.html https://help.typepad.com/shutdown-faq.html
- pabs3 1y ago
  Whats the URL? ArchiveTeam is planning on saving all the blogs to archive.org.

At least with LLMs, we can just write a query to migrate the export to whatever target format we want. The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links.

_verandaguy 1y ago
Was this somehow not doable without LLMs? It's trivial data massaging.
- Alex3917 1y ago
  I mean with LLMs you just copy-paste in the input format of your new CMS and then upload your export file. Even if it only took 15 minutes before, it now takes 0 minutes.
  - nicce 1y ago
    Old solutions scale 1000+ posts but this does not.
cube00 1y ago
It's too bad the LLMs will hallucinate and mess up the content while doing that migration.
- qingcharles 1y ago
  I think the best way would be to get an LLM to write a script that would export/import the data, so it only writes the code, doesn't touch the data.
jll29 1y ago
> The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links. That is annoying indeed - it would be nice if the Web had some way to keep links eternally valid. But people didn't even manage Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to work beyond the death of the publishing companies that issued them... Perhaps links could be auto-replaced to archive.org links if they ceased to exist?

nonfamous 1y ago

Coincidentally, and fortunately, I was already in the process of migrating a blog with 10 year’s worth of content from TypePad. It’s not enough. TypePad’s export process is awful: the output is a poorly formatted .txt file which is hard to parse reliably. The export process itself fails at least half the time. There’s no export process for images or style files. Automated crawl processes fail. I LOL’ed at this part of the post: >> If you have any questions, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions page here. The “here” link 404s.

scblock 1y ago
That's unfortunate. Good luck.
omg_ketchup 1y ago
The link has a typo. It should point to: https://help.typepad.com/shutdown-faq.html https://help.typepad.com/shutdown-faq.html
pabs3 1y ago
Whats the URL? ArchiveTeam is planning on saving all the blogs to archive.org.