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Flow & LiquidThreads: Stability

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Rubyy (talkcontribs)

As we know, there was an extension named "LiquidThreads", that has almost the same functions like Flow. Unfortunately, it is unmaintained now, and the discussions there is not exist now.

I want to ask that will Flow be stable? Can I backup the discussions of Flow on my MediaWiki website if it has some issues?

Mattflaschen-WMF (talkcontribs)

@Rubyy, we are migrating all of the LiquidThreads discussions (including history) to Flow on MediaWiki.org (this is all done except Project:Support desk, which is in progress). Certain other Wikimedia wikis will come later.

If WMF ever switched away from Flow to a new discussion system (there are no plans to do so), I would hope we would migrate Flow content to it, similar to what we're doing with LQT->Flow.

We will work more soon on public database dumps for Flow (phab:T89398). However, just as with regular pages, this will not include 100%. E.g. the main public dump can't include deleted posts for obvious reasons.

So dumps are a way of providing your content, but they are not a complete backup. Thus, even if you choose to provide dumps on your third-party wiki, we encourage you to also back it up at the database layer (e.g. tools like mysqldump).

Mattflaschen-WMF (talkcontribs)

Also, this LQT->Flow conversion software is in the Flow repository for anyone to use if they choose.

Subfader (talkcontribs)

I wondered the same for a while but I'm ready to give it a go.

I now wonder if it's stable enough so updates won't make big problems. I guess not since it's enabled in some Wikimedia projects.

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