Here is a migration's TODO/DONE list of the forum & database (table list).
DONE: - (Finished 2019-03-27) DB - Table details: comments and comment form with a nice validation system and recaptcha validation (no more spam???
).
- Drop of pinsimdb.org domain and 2 new sub domains on gopinball.com (one for the forum, one for the DB)
- Forum: migration process to the latest forum software version (no bug found for the moment) and bootstrap theme (not customized for the moment)
- DB: general layout of the site (fully responsive): menu, global search (in the DB).
- DB: Homepage with the welcome message provided by GeorgeH (thank you
) and the 6 latest table added. No stats for the moment.
- DB: Table list with navigation and a simple search (search match any word on the table title or author).
- DB: Table details with (ongoing) a big panel at the top and a carrousel (with title, author, tags, ... and download links), description/rules/other info/resources in "tabs" and place for comments (not done) in a right column. A also put photoswipe carrousel for the resource viewer (it is great,
https://photoswipe.com/)
- DB - Table details: info missing (table "mod of", links on tags / authors, author homepage...)
TODO: - (started) Forum / DB: Finish the boostrap theme and use Francisco logo (on the homepage of the DB and the topic list of the forum). [Bootstrap css/js customization workflow in place, it was quite a journey]
- (started) DB / Forum: unified bootstrap header for coherence and easy navigation between the forum and the DB
- (nearly the end) DB - Table creation form: everything (I will try to make it more user friendly
).
- DB - Session management (user authentication): I'm going to drop the current users of PinSimDB (they have no use) and use the forum accounts if I find (mainly to auto fill the comment author).
- Homepage: add more content (Some news (maybe), latest forum post (probabl), db stats, page dedicated to software like FP, BAM, ...)
- Forum / DB: cookie disclaimer
- Forum / DB: https
- DB: sitemap / robots
- Forum / DB: google analytics
- Forum / DB: google adsense
- DB: htaccess to redirect from pinsimdb.org to the new domain (http 301).
- DB / httpd: modify httpd conf to use ProxyPass in order to have httpd and a nodejs/expressjs server on the same server (for reference:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/983 ... ame-server).
- Misc: project pages (FPM Editor, Companion tools, FPWine - I will probably get rid of Speed devils - even if we are a bit proud of it even after all these years)
That was quite a big learning curve for me. I had to learn nearly all the technologies (nodejs/expressjs, nunjucks, elasticsearch), but it was the original intent
Do not hesitate to add, in this topic, proposals for new functionnalities for the database site (currently pinsimdb.org).
History: 
2019-03-27:
- some progress. I had to rewrite a big part of the DB website because the method I used was too much time consumming. Now it is much more easy (comments list / form / validation / save and realod took less than 2 hours - which is cool)
- started working on the theme: I have a (basic) workflow in order to customize bottstrap CSS. I hoped it was easier than this.
2019-04-07:
- Some more progress: nearly finished the creation of a table (upload). I spent quite some time on usability on both desktop and mobile. The pinball upload form starts to be in a very good shape, love it
Back to work!!! See you
)