XenForo

[John1]

Has anyone seen this? It's from an ex vBulletin staff member and to be honest it looks pretty good, although the layout seems a little like the vBulletin default layout.

How will vBulletin take this? http://xenforo.com/community/

It uses quite a lot of neat features, hover over a forum title and it pops up with a little description. Click a members name and it pops up with their details in a box, so it looks pretty cool.

 

[David]

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=53893

And, it's a very nice, and aesthetic piece of software.

 

[John1]

Ahh thanks David, maybe a staff can merge my post with that topic.

Anyway, yes it's very nice the original theme is much lighter and better looking than the vBulletin one in my opinion.

 

[Jonathan]

It's a bit more than you've put it out to be. It's the most innovative, incredible forum software I've ever used. It's also from probably the most talented forum software developers too, Kier. Mike is also a superb developer.

 

[AnAccount]

That looks pretty impressive! I don't know what else to say about it, really. That's a paid software, though, isn't it?

 

[Jonathan]

Yes, Ashley, it's commercial software.

 

[AnAccount]

Yes, Ashley, it's commercial software.

Rats! Otherwise I wouldn't mind doing a test run of it. Ah well.

 

[Kashike]

Looks pretty nice, although there is a lot of Javascript/jQuery. >_>

 

[John1]

Isn't that good? Saves loading time 😉

 

[Darthmaul]

It's the most innovative, incredible forum software I've ever used. It's also from probably the most talented forum software developers too, Kier. Mike is also a superb developer.

This

 

[master412160]

I never seen it until now, heard about it yes the name nothing more but now I really see it. So how old is teh site ? and can VB shut them down if they want ?

+ how much does it cost, when does it come out the first version ?

It looks very neat.I am going to join!

 

[DarkRaven]

and can VB shut them down if they want ?

Unless they are stealing code, which I doubt they are, no. There's nothing illegal about creating your own forum script. :S

 

[master412160]

But what about having something very similar

 

[Darthmaul]

But what about having something very similar

Okay, if that were true that someone could shut another person down for haveing something similar to them then there would be like 10 forums out there. Just sayin 😉

 

[DarkRaven]

But what about having something very similar

If that was the case, vBulletin would have shut down the MyBB project years ago.

 

[David]

But what about having something very similar

Everything on the web is something similar. We all use HTML, but HTML is not copyrighted to W3C; we all use CSS, maybe JS etc.. Having something similar is more likely to happen then something different.

 

[master412160]

Alright thanks for the explanation.

 

[David]

Alright thanks for the explanation.

I forgot to add, it depends on how it is coded. The codes on the Internet are not copyrighted to anyone; rather, it's the way the code is being used. If the code is unique, in a way that it isn't a textbook example of coding then it "could" be copyrighted, but it would be hard. There are very limited ways in coding a navigation bar, so it would be hard to claim that you are the sole owner of the code.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Here's my view on XenForo;

It's like a page 3 model, it looks good and has the potential to be something, but would it achieve it's goals and succeed where other software fail? It is great for an alpha and I do like the features implemented so far, but there isn't anything I want from it that I don't already get with IPB.

The like each post feature displayed in XenForo is equivalent to the Reputation feature in IPB. Both have user pop-up cards, both utilize good URL structure, both use great backend coding to present a fantastic product to the end user. Until they make me purchase a license (when it actually becomes public) with many reasons as to why I would spend more money on a second solution for my community, I have no desire to follow up.

 

[Jonathan]

Here's my view on XenForo;

It's like a page 3 model, it looks good and has the potential to be something, but would it achieve it's goals and succeed where other software fail? It is great for an alpha and I do like the features implemented so far, but there isn't anything I want from it that I don't already get with IPB.

The like each post feature displayed in XenForo is equivalent to the Reputation feature in IPB. Both have user pop-up cards, both utilize good URL structure, both use great backend coding to present a fantastic product to the end user. Until they make me purchase a license (when it actually becomes public) with many reasons as to why I would spend more money on a second solution for my community, I have no desire to follow up.

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/

It is the first alpha, and there's already a host of intuitive features.