Yes, great job with this. I like that we have the old vote count available independently of how we set up the voting plugin on the forums. That means we could consider approaches like leaving the “new” vote count at zero, which solves the problem of how to match up previous votes with forum users.
Honestly we could even leave that plugin out and just use likes to rank the petitions.
Another piece to this project is our API endpoint that retrieves petition data for ClassicPress sites. I’ve updated it to just return static data for now, instead of calling out to the Fider API which will go away soon:
https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress-APIs/commit/01d59b0c5916a6bc5e3833dec443ca26f9fef042
Yet another is putting something else up at petitions.classicpress.net, thread for that part here: Petitions Redirect Help
Just to clarify, instead of self-hosting Fider, we’ve been planning to migrate the petitions to the forums for a while. This allows us to consolidate our platforms a bit more - one less login/account for people to have to worry about. Another benefit is that we can move threads into/out of the petitions category as needed if people make suggestions for improvement in other places or if the petition threads spawn other discussions.