the new BioStar site has gone live

[Istvan Albert]

Hello Everyone,

The migration to the new software has been completed.

If everything works as expected I will request the removal of the original site.

Thanks again to everyone that contributed.

best,

Istvan

[Chris Maloney]

Looks great! Congratulations!

[Lars Juhl Jensen]

Looks great except from one thing: the migration of tags seems to have
gone badly wrong. All the questions that used to have the tag "next-
generation-sequencing" now has the tag "next". Ouch ...

[Lars Juhl Jensen]

Upon closer inspection, I think it is all multi-word-tags that have
gone wrong. The new tag "p" seems to be what was previously "p-value".

[Istvan Albert]

ok, that's my mistake here

what happened is that the minus was reserved to indicate the removal
of a tag so it is not accepted anymore inside the tag, I have to
rethink this a bit and correct it

best,

Istvan

--
Istvan Albert
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
Pennsylvania State University
http://www.personal.psu.edu/iua1/

[Aleksandr Levchuk]

Congratulations!

Thank you for moving to the Free and Open Source software model!

Alex

[Daniel Standage]

Wow. I'm a moderator now? ;)

Also, my 1793 rep on the old site is now 199 on the new site. Maybe this is still being worked out, but I thought you might want to know.

Daniel

[David Quigley]

All of the reputation scores are down by about an order of magnitude.

[Pablo marin-garcia]

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Istvan Albert <iu...@psu.edu> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> The migration to the new software has been completed.
>
> If everything works as expected I will request the removal of the original site.
>

Please, dont remove the original site unless there is an automatic
method to redirect any link from the old page to the new. BioStar has
become a very useful place for biologist and many threads has been
cited in web and probably in papers and are stored in many many
browser bookmarks and would be useful to recover them. Now when you go
to any of the links, you are redirected only to the home page of the
new site. I tried to substitute biostar.stackexchange.com with
www.biostar.org but it does not go http://ww16.biostar.org/error.html.
How can convert my old links to the new site?

> Thanks again to everyone that contributed.
>
> best,
>
> Istvan

--
   - Pablo Marin-Garcia

[Pablo marin-garcia]

Hello Istvan, good work, but I have an issue with my user from yahoo
open id. It is not recognized and I can not go to the old site to see
my master id and update the new site. How can I visit the old site and
recover my id?

Thanks

P.S. The red banner at the top is too bright and the letters in the
menu are difficult to read

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Istvan Albert <iu...@psu.edu> wrote:

--
   - Pablo Marin-Garcia

[Istvan Albert]

Hello everyone,

if you have technical problems please send the email to me directly at

istvan...@gmail.com

rather than replying to this group thread.

[Istvan Albert]

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:09 PM, David Quigley
<david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All of the reputation scores are down by about an order of magnitude.

Yes, reputation is now a sum of all upvotes + accepted answers rather
than being a formula.

best,

Istvan

[Alastair Kerr]

Thanks for all the hard work  Istvan, 

I just noticed one issue regarding formatting. When using nested bullet points the preview looks ok but the final version does not. 

i.e.

 1. Comment

* sub comment 1 

 2. comment 2 

* subcomment 2 

Works in preview but turns out in answer  as: 

1. Comment

2. sub comment 1 

3. comment 2 

4. subcomment 2 

- Al

[Chris Maloney]

Wouldn't it be better to encourage people to create tickets on github,
here: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central/issues ?

This way, the issues are open, so I:
- can go there first and find out if anyone has already reported my issue
- comment on issues that others have reported
- track the status of issues that I report or that I'm interested in

[Istvan Albert]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Chris Maloney <vold...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to encourage people to create tickets on github,
> here:  https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central/issues ?

Absolutely I would prefer that approach too if they know how to do so.

Realistically speaking many people don't have github accounts, or
don't want to sing up to github just to report an issue. Also some
problems like not being able to log in etc may have an urgency to
them. I do plan to open an issue for problems that appear to be
general.

So let me restate the preferred course of actions for reporting problems

1. open an issue
2. send an email to me (and I'll open the issue for you)
3. post to newsgroup

best,

Istvan

[Chris Evelo]

It is just a minor thing, but is there an easy way to get my old
profile ext back?

[Istvan Albert]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Chris Evelo <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is just a minor thing, but is there an easy way to get my old
> profile ext back?

I am not sure what profile ext means. Could you please elaborate a bit.

best,

Istvan

[neilfws]

I've posted a few issues to Github this morning.

One other question: is it possible to obtain the final database dump from the old stackexchange site?

[Chris Evelo]

Hi Istvan,

Sorry, missed a "t". I meant the "profile text". Profiles on the old
stack exchange contained a description, at least for those of us who
added that and you could also give a URL.

Bet, Chris

On Apr 9, 8:37 pm, Istvan Albert <i...@psu.edu> wrote:

[Istvan Albert]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Chris Evelo <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, missed a "t". I meant the "profile text". Profiles on the old
> stack exchange contained a description, at least for those of us who
> added that and you could also give a URL.

I see,

the profiles are migrated only that the html (for those that used it)
would need to be turned into markdown.
But I transformed your profile now so it should look fine.

http://www.biostars.org/user/profile/1350/

wow you have so many cool webservices.

(though now your profile text is a bit too long for the current form
verifier thus right now you can't change it unless you shorten it -
this is a bug that will be fixed soon)

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Daniel Standage
<daniel....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. I'm a moderator now? ;)
>

Huh - me too. If I was a moderator on the old SE site, I hadn't realised it.
http://www.biostars.org/user/profile/146/

Was there a criteria for this? I'm not complaining mind you ;)

Peter

[Istvan Albert]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Was there a criteria for this? I'm not complaining mind you ;)

just the usual promotion and tenure process - aka black box

;-)

best,

istvan

[Istvan Albert]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Was there a criteria for this? I'm not complaining mind you ;)

hey I just came up with a new rule, anyone that passes me in
reputation will become an administrator

;-)

[Chris Evelo]

Thanks a lot! I will just not touch it until you fix that ;-)

On Apr 10, 3:22 pm, Istvan Albert <i...@psu.edu> wrote: