Anyone Else On Xenforo 2?
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Looks really noce. XF2 is much more mobile friendly.
I find XenForo 2 to be very clunky. They added a post from index thing, but the interface is so clunky that it defeats the object of having it in the first place.
It has tons of fluff like topic counts, descriptions, etc. slowing you down from just selecting a forum in the Post from Index thing and creating your post.
Also, quick topic from one of the individual forums took four whole seconds to load after clicking on the text field.
They copied these features from elsewhere, but I think they completely missed the point on why they're so useful to begin with, and that is the ability to just cut through cruft.
It has tons of fluff like topic counts, descriptions, etc. slowing you down from just selecting a forum in the Post from Index thing and creating your post.
Also, quick topic from one of the individual forums took four whole seconds to load after clicking on the text field.
They copied these features from elsewhere, but I think they completely missed the point on why they're so useful to begin with, and that is the ability to just cut through cruft.
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I feel that XF 2 is little bit on the heavy side. I am using their default them and no addons. The webpage loading time has increased drastically. I don't know whether it is due to my shared hosting. But XF 1.5 ran very smoothly and it felt light.
XF2 did feel very sluggish when I played with it on the official site.
For instance, the quick topic took four seconds to load.
I'm not sure if that's xenForo's fault. I've even been having issues connecting now and again but I think the issue is Cloudflare.
I have an xenForo 2 forum set up with Redis caching on a 1 GB RAM VPS. So far it loads super fast and I haven't had any problems with it yet. Can't compare it to xenForo 1 yet though because I never tested the differences.
It was an issue on XenForo.com, if XenForo can't properly setup their site with their own software as you suggest, then who can? lol
But they use Cloudflare. I've gotten many Cloudflare errors before and when I don't get the errors, it seems like the site does not even respond. But if I use a proxy / VPN, it loads fine.
Have you ever used xenForo before?
I think I really started liking Xenforo after the 2.0 release more. I know it isn't the best version of a forum software, but it does have all the features you would expect from a forum.
The biggest complaint with Xenforo 1 was that every good feature was a paid addon. Xenforo 2 gives admins more to work with. The default theme is also a little better.
I've used Cloudflare for many years and it has always worked perfectly for my sites (except for when my server was down, but it's hard to fault Cloudflare there), albeit not XenForo, but it doesn't take much work to setup Cloudflare properly at all.
And if Cloudflare thinks you're bot (most likely why they'd be blocking you), then it's more likely that you'd be completely blocked and things would fail to load rather than it doing something strange like throttling the speed of downloading an asset.
Also, they are not using Cloudflare, from the looks of it. The problem is clearly on the server-side here.
Not anymore they aren't (probably because of the past issues they've had with it). But your issue is different than mine. Could be my ISP.. could be server-side rate limiting because I hit the page often at times.. who knows.
I would like to think that cPanel is competent enough to implement support for a proxy properly when I'm capable of doing so with approximately eight lines of code.
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