History of the Website
The original Nouse site was launched in 2003 after York Vision dabbled with a site in around 2000 - in 2002 they won Best Student Website in the Guardian Student Media awards. A copy is available at the internet archive
It was moved WordPress during the summer of 2005. Internet Archive
The 2003-2005 content was migrated by the then technical director Chris Northwood to the WordPress site in 2009
Move to internal CMS
Based on similar moves by University Radio York to move their site over to its own purpose built CMS and a similar move by York Student Television (Github), James Bithell developed a purpose built CMS for Nouse with an entierly new theme for the frontend component. The biggest challenge associated with this migration was the sheer volume of articles and comments that the site had amassed (see table correct as at migration). To ensure their readability post migration a backup of every article was taken and coverted to a PDF.
| Item | Count |
|---|---|
| Posts | 19,113 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publicly visible comments | 30,519 |
| Comments that were hidden as they might be spam | 276,510 |
| Auto-detected spam comments | 882,073 |