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Re: VM Community Forum Move
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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
When merging forums, the merging of accounts is normally based on email address.
Yes, exactly, because although usernames could potentially have been duplicated between the VM and O2 fora, email addresses are globally unique.

Surely they must have realised that potential for duplicate usernames and worked out some means of mitigating against that beforehand.

Like you said before, migrating and merging fora is not exactly a completely new science, yes there are always outliers and a few gotchas, but VM and O2 have apparently been preparing for this for months, so why it has now become ‘difficult’ is hard to comprehend.

Unless, and let’s use Occam’s razor for this, they didn’t actually do any preparatory work, because they never intended for the fora to come back. Or, let's be less cynical, senior management ignored advice from their respective technical people and simply didn't allocate enough resources to the job.

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which is the more likely!
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