Thanks for your question. It's an important topic that we have discussed at length here at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
From a technical perspective, the Discussion Boards are not in a database; they are in a flat file. The new software, and pretty much all (or most) forum software, use a database format which means it is not easy to move old systems to new ones if they are not using the same structure. What this means is that we are unable to transfer any of the threads on the Discussion Boards over to the new system, the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards. Additionally, because of the unstable state of the Discussion Boards, we cannot guarantee that we could host them indefinitely.
Our suggestion would be to either print off the threads or posts that you want to save, or copy them to your computer. If there are current and active conversations that you want to carry over to the new boards, then you could copy and paste those conversations into new threads on the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards. We would suggest that if you do this to only bring over newer threads, and save the rest to your own computers. Having old threads appear in the new system may cause some participants confusion, and can also bog down the system if you copy over all of the code and imagery.
I am trying to get use to it but it just does not seem as user friendly. It seems so lonely b/c not many people are posting here. Hopefully more will post in the near future.
