I am the responsible developer for the danish entrepreneur site and community www.amino.dk where I work full time with developing new features and improving the existing platform.

For years we have been running an antiquated debate forum on the IdealBB software, the old classic asp solution. It was buggy, featureless and really didn't fit in between all of our own .Net 2.0 solutions.

So we decided to shift to the very promising Community Server and we have been planning this change of platform for some time now.

Yesterday was the day we moved almost 150.000 posts, and more than 11.000 user profiles, and it went pretty well. It was a tough day, we faced a lot of unexpected problems, and there are still a heap of bugs to take care of, but we pretty much pulled it of without loosing anything important.

In the following days the new site will be crawled and all pages and threads will be paired up with the old URLS and 301 redirected, so that search engines will not get confused.

This was a bit of a personal note, and I will now return to the debugging the new community.