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It's not that straightforward. Being on the same engine makes no difference if you're scraping from what's available via your browser.
There's a database on their server which has everything catalogued, as well as additional information and metadata that isn't available to a scraper.
That's why the Hoppe-sama migration is going to be difficult, especially in a rush: we have to try to fabricate a Lynxchan database from some scraped data. It's not at all straightforward.
You guys do have another option, which is to ask Robi for a database dump of your posts. We'd have to nuke the current board on 8moe, but simply merging that dump into our database should be doable.
We haven't done it yet but we've been looking into how to go about that for the Hoppe-sama script, so it's something we need to figure out anyways.
If you can't get that database then I wouldn't hold your breath. If we get a functional Vichan merge script then it might be possible to just have it scrape Lynxchan instead and do a similar reconstruction. But right now there's a lot of variables and I certainly can't make it the priority.
As an aside, it might be worth the Hoppe-sama BOs asking Robi for a database dump of their boards as well. We could use that to import their boards quite easily. Given that these are all boards which were going to be wiped during the Rebirth anyways, I don't think it's an unreasonable request for you guys to try and save your stuff.
It's worth asking, and a dump of boards from Julay would definitely be the fastest way to migrate, not to mention the easiest from a technical perspective.
If Robi is open to it, but unsure how to do it, I'd be happy to coordinate between his team, our team, and StephenLynx to work out a transfer procedure.