I have selected another Manila site I host, www.londonpoolscampaign.com as a pre-testing test victim and found quite more than a few of member problems. in addition to the remnants of some sort of mass member creation fiasco (lots of consistently malformed member logins), it looks like there there were tons of members created with no record of a login. This is the result of Manila site owners enabling a poorly conceived commenting system called ‘Radio Hosting.’
This feature invited tons of abuse by comment spammers, and so I am inclined to leave these members and their comments behind, as a site that has been abuse can run in to tens of thousands of members like this. Please feel free to shout me down (okay don’t really shout, I’m a sensitive kinda guy) on this point.
Also I have opted to leave out members who have not logged in for two years or more. This may indeed be harsh – again please feel free to debate this with me. Any content posted by one of these expired users, will be the property of the admin on the new WordPress site.
So here are today’s changes to exporting members from a Manila site to a WordPress site:
1. You have a login, but have never logged in? Your out.
2. You have not logged in for the last two years? Your out. Your posts become property of the new admin.
Update: see the new chart ‘A close examination of exporting Manila members to WordPress‘ that I just posted.