valorin, 29 days ago

The migration from Substack to Ghost has started!

Annoyingly, Substack had to disconnect Stripe, so until everything is in Ghost, everyone will appear as a "free subscriber"... 😒

It should be resolved in 24-48 hours. 🤞

valorin, 28 days ago

Subscriptions have been imported, and apart from some small issues (no Group subscription support), it looks good so far! 🤞

I'm just waiting on the OK to switch over the domain! 🤓

Annoyingly the Ghost API doesn't want to return all of my posts, so I'll need to do a lot of manual edits... but we're getting closer!

You can check it out at the temporary URL: https://securing-laravel.ghost.io/

valorin, 28 days ago

Switched the domain over to Ghost, and now everything is 404'ing... 😞

This is definitely not going according to plan!

valorin, 28 days ago

Ah, found the redirects.yaml file and fixed up the redirects! Everything should load correctly now. 😅

I'd love a way to see 404's though, so I can fix up any I've missed. 😉

valorin, 27 days ago

For those following along at home, here's where I'm up to with the Securing Laravel move:

✅Post content
✅Billing
✅Domain
✅Redirects
❌Post tags
❌Footnotes
❌Post formatting
❌Group subs
❌API lexical post content
❌Stripe notifications

Mostly just tedious stuff left...

valorin, 25 days ago

The last big thing I need to fix before I can take a break and focus on other things is tags... but apparently Substack's post export doesn't include tags. 😡

I guess I'll be manually restoring 76 tags.

outofcontrol, 24 days ago

@valorin Can you scrape the tags from Substack and update the import file, or is that not how the import works?

valorin, 24 days ago

@outofcontrol
It's too late for an import file, but I did scrape the tag pages to retrieve the list of tagged posts, and then used their API to update the posts.

So now everything is tagged. 😁

outofcontrol, 24 days ago

@valorin Great minds thinking alike and all that 😜

outofcontrol, 28 days ago

@valorin Happy to test when ready. Just tried with attached. But perhaps this was because I had already left substack… for reasons… :)

valorin, 28 days ago

@outofcontrol
Yeah, it would have only pulled in active subscribers as part of the migration. So if you disabled everything, you wouldn't be included.