Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-131168-20150127161209/@comment-452-20150127171617

That's a good idea, I hadn't thought of that.

One of the many reasons I disabled the new forums after initial testing was that there was no way to transfer the old content into the new forum: Importing doesn't work, moving a page into a thread doesn't work, and there's no way for an admin to assign a different username to a post. And if a user posts a question on a talk page that should be a forum post, it's possible to move it into the "old" forum, but not the "new forum".

For some reason keeping them open side-by-side by having them in the Project namespace didn't occur to me.