User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-452-20121129225441

I like that there is a "move this thread" option, hopefully this will be backported into the Message Wall, or better yet that the Forum, Message Wall, and Blog Comments will be unified.

However, there doesn't appear to be any facility to move old forums topics into the new forum.

As I've said in the past, I believe it is amateurish when forums on the internet switch from phpbb to invision and lock all old topics instead of making the effort to convert them to the new system.

Wikia is at least keeping the old forums rather than deleting them, and is maintaining old links to forums topics directly, but it would still be better if it were possible for local wiki admins to move the topics manually into the new forum system if they choose to do so. (I've already tested doing it via import, and it isn't possible)

edit: strange, half of my comment was missing