Why is XenForo a good software?

[Gizmo]

Try and make my opinions on XenForo change by posting why you feel it's a good software. All I see is it's a piece of rubbish developed just so the developers get more money to pay their bills.

 

[Branden]

Cause it has a very nice feel to it and it's something more appealing to the eye. (For Me)

 

[Xuan Zhongda]

A lot of people are also into Social Media now, and it has some features pretty identical to to Social Networking sites, so, yeah. I imagine that doesn't hurt it.

 

[D]

Try and make my opinions on XenForo change by posting why you feel it's a good software. All I see is it's a piece of rubbish developed just so the developers get more money to pay their bills.

Lol, Fluffy.

You were over at the xenForo community forums ready to buy the software a couple of weeks ago, now your slagging it off? :roll:

xenForo is not like any other forum software, it's light, Intuitive, pretty much the best forum software I have ever used and I have used all of them. It is the easiest to style for, create addons for and it is engaging, it brings people together.

I have explained time and time again to people why xenForo is special... I really CBA explaining further.

If you really want to know more just go back to xenforo.com and take a look around again but with your eyes open this time.

 

[Gizmo]

I was interested in it for a little but after thoughts on the software itself it's a piece of rubbish.

 

[D]

Thats fair enough, each to their own and all that. But xenForo is far from rubbish, i'm not even going to argue because 99% of this forum know it isn't.. The other 1% haven't been eating their weatabix.

 

[Xuan Zhongda]

I'm just a bit curious as to why you think it's "rubbish". =3 Enlighten me?

 

[Nebulous]

XF forums load quickly but I dont really care for the way things are layed out. Of course the new IPB version looks pretty damn similar so I suppose I have to get used to it whenever I get around to upgrading my forum. Lol

 

[AnAccount]

I'm not a huge fan of it from an admin/forum owner's end of things, but I love it from a member's standpoint. From a member's point of view it has a really nice layout and from what I've seen on a couple Webmaster sites I'm a member of, it looks like they're finally coming out with some decent themes. However, a flip of the coin reveals that it can be very hard to work with. I remember someone on this forum giving us a demo link where we could play around with it and see what different things in the ACP do and what-not. While I admit that the ACP in Xenforo wasn't half as confusing as Vbulletin (I was co-admin of a religious site ran off of VB once, before the software experienced their downfall) I still found Xenforo's ACP hard to work with all the same. I liked it because there were visuals (pictures) by the different functions and whatever where, if you couldn't understand what something did by reading the name of the function or feature, you could make some sense out of it by using the picture. However, even visual cues weren't helping me out at all, and I could not make heads or tails out of it. So for right now, until they start making the software easier to work with and maintain, I'll gladly join up with a forum hosted on Xenforo, but I don't know if I would purchase a license straight away for my own personal forum. It's funny, because my tech admin has different feelings about this than I. We were discussing this one day, and he brought up that should things come to a head with phpBB (specially in the updating department) then we would get Xenforo. I remember saying at the time, "fine by me. However, if we do purchase a license, I'm letting you deal with the ACP side of things". I can barely understand how things work in phpBB3, especially as far as permissions and stuff like that goes, but Xenforo, for me, since I'm not really tech savvy, would be like being on a roller coaster in a sense!

 

[Gizmo]

Anyone else wish to share their comments as to why people think it's a great software when it's actually not?

 

[Zilent]

XenForo has a really simple layout, and powerful features.

 

[Acorn]

Is it very secure? I've had multiple issues with SMF and sometimes kick around the idea of converting again to something else.

 

[el canadiano]

Is it very secure? I've had multiple issues with SMF and sometimes kick around the idea of converting again to something else.

Of course. It was built under the Zend Framework and one of the advantages of building under Zend (and in this case, most of its competitors as well) is that it was coded in a way that it's a lot harder to introduce an XSS flaw (see Kier's interview at The Admin Zone).

The closest thing they had to a vulnerability so far was people abusing the search system, which was fixed in 1.0.2 or 1.0.3.

 

[Juice]

XenForo is awesome and that's the end of it.

 

[Gizmo]

XenForo is awesome and that's the end of it.

Why? Care to explain your reasons?

 

[Jd252]

Personally I have never used this software although I have researched it and everything seems really nice my only problem is I hear its bad on server load.

 

[noreturn]

I agree it's professional and just has a good feel to it.. When you look into more it looks a lot better than the cover..

For example the saying "Dont judge a book by it's cover"

 

[Poopy Head]

I've never used it, but I doubt it would be a good software.

 

[Marc]

Why? Care to explain your reasons?

Care to explain yours?

All I see is it's a piece of rubbish developed just so the developers get more money to pay their bills.

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my only problem is I hear its bad on server load.

Erm... where did you hear that?
I can show you an active community that's on shared hosting, with no issues.

I've never used it, but I doubt it would be a good software.

Have fun with free software then.

Of course. It was built under the Zend Framework

Not true. You should read this: Is XenForo written in Zend Framework?.

 

[Gizmo]

There is IPB and VB marc. 😉 And I will not argue with an XF fanatic.