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@Background Pony #7570
Yes!

We were planning on making a proper post about it (combined with a couple other things), but yep, everything worked out there.

Huge thanks to Adorable Blue Fox, our sysadmin was very impressed with the functionality and quality!

Woo, thanks for running my script; I am glad to see the comments on the tantabus now.

Also, are the comments still being imported? Because I noticed a few missing comments, which I never had issues with during my tests. If someone could send me the processing.log file, that would be great so I can fix that potential issue.

Here is a small example that does not have the comments imported:
Tantabus & Derpi
And to sanity check that comment does exist on my test environment:

I’ve also noticed that I neglected to check for deleted comments to prevent them from being imported, so any deleted/banned comments are now visible again as raw text. I can adjust the script to fix that issue.

@Adorable Blue Fox
We run it only for the “ai generated” images, as (the majority of) those will be removed from derpi. We’ll grab the rest “soon”, though we likely won’t be rerunning it for updates after that.

Ah, okay, that makes sense.

There are people who retagged images from ai generated to ai composition, etc. Still, if the plan is to import the rest “soon,” then it would at least just cover that base even though they’re both going to be on Derpi and Tantabus. Who knows, the rules could change again.

@Adorable Blue Fox
when all of these iterations of programmatic transfers are done we’re going to be going through any images with sus tag changes by hand to make sure we aren’t missing any that should be here

@Adorable Blue Fox
There’s still a ludicrous amount of stuff being tagged ai composition over there that’s going to need heavy-handed enforcement or this whole thing is pointless. I can’t speak to what is actually being enforced but ‘ai that looks good enough’ or ‘ai with a speech bubble’ shouldn’t be the standard for what is acceptable.

I’d like to personally thank you, @Adorable Blue Fox for the incredible script.

If it wasn’t for your effort, I am pretty sure “migrate the comments” would have remained a task somewhere on my TODO list, potentially indefinitely as it wasn’t that high of a priority.

The code was easy to understand, and dealt with all the potential issues such migration could easily encounter (Most notably, re-runs, without risking duplications)

Really, thank you! :)

Thanks, I know too well about having things on a to-do list and never being able to get to them due to other priorities.

Funnily enough, the script would have been way simpler with direct access to both the Derpi and Tantabus databases and just having it directly import instead of having to process the nightly dump.

But just in case direct connection to both wasn’t possible, I went with that method, especially if the data was already deleted on Derpi.

Anyways, I have a lot of experience with these types of things, especially data migration between services, and I knew I could get something working fairly quickly.

Anyways, if there is anything else that needs migrating, let me know.

I’m sure this community would prefer to have the tags with the correct details, such as categories, aliases, includes, and descriptions, etc.

Comments temporarily reverted due to an issue we encountered, will be reimported Soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.