To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page.
Over the last two weeks, we made significant progress on migrations, migrating over 1,300 accounts per day on average. We are scaling this up ever higher and I expect us to reach 3,000 accounts per day soon. We also removed exclusions from over 6,000 accounts. Overall, we are more than 30% done with the migration, having made 10% progress in these two weeks.
If you would like to migrate before we automatically migrate you, please login to your Smashwords Account page or Dashboard and complete the migration survey.
If you don’t see the migration survey, that means we are currently unable to migrate your account. However, if you would like us to investigate why we can’t migrate your account, please reach out to support and we’ll find out for you.
As automatic migrations progress, we are diligently working on clearing out reasons we can’t migrate some accounts.
Progress
Since the last update, we have migrated 18,408 accounts and 27,251 books.
Invited – waiting on user: 62,543
Invited – waiting on us: 30
Migration Processing: 30
Successfully Migrated: 39,604
Currently Ineligible to Migrate: 27,249
Total: 129,456
124,207 Books have been migrated.
Current Activity
Merge Tool for Books
Part of ongoing merge tool development, this will provide the ability via Multi-Books Actions for merging one book into another.
Allow Migrations into Existing D2D Accounts
Currently, we are only able to migrate users into brand new D2D accounts. We are working to make it possible to migrate into an existing D2D account when a user’s D2D email address is the same as their Smashwords email address.
Logged in users who click activation link go to logged in account
When a migrated user has more than one D2D account and they click on an account activation link, the user is taken to an already logged in D2D account. This will cause the activation link to fail, creating a confusing situation for the user. Instead we need to log the user out if the user is already logged into an account that does not match the account in the activation link, so the user gets the correct page.
Recently Completed Items
Allow for duplicate contributor names from Smashwords
Previously, we handled duplicate contributor names from Smashwords by making the name unique by adding the SW username to the end of any duplicate contributor’s last name. However, with the introduction of the contributor merge tool at D2D we no longer need to do this and have stopped doing so.
Send new welcome email to migrating users if their welcome link gets refreshed
We had a small amount of users that needed refreshed links, clicked to get them, but then did not ever finish setting up their password on their new D2D account. We needed to arrange to send a new welcome email to them when they get their link refreshed so they have another way to get back to the Smashwords welcome screen besides just the redirect from Smashwords. We know send en email in these cases.
Known Issues
No known issues at this time.
– Kris Austin, CEO