[vishnu]

A large setback has occurred -- the migration utils MyBB offers (Merge) won't preserve forum IDs/user IDs. Because our SEO relies on numbers, this is indefinitely postponed.

One idea is to setup a permalink style using forum topic names, and then let google slowly reindex for 6-8 months, but I'm not sure I wanna do that. We did take a minor hit in forcing moves off the old domains, not sure I'm prepared to undertake that.

I've never trusted MariaDB either, not for any particular reason other than probably paranoia, but I'm still using a mysql on my database, which is 228,402,745 bytes, I mean, that's not really huge but still, it performs really well and I'm perfectly happy with it. But hey, that's just me, and YMMV! 😀