Recent content by Mendalla

To be clear, we are not renewing a license, we are renewing support. That's a crucial distinction. The license is bought outright when you make the initial purchase. The annual payments cover ticketed support and updates. If you don't need support or updates, you can still legally use the...

This is part of my experience as well. My support payments (because that's what they are) are for updates, pure and simple. I have never opened a ticket. The user community is enough support for what I need given my site's relatively low needs and simplicity. That said, I am in a similar...

I think the resources section here was kind of meant to be that but it's never been pushed or optimized as the "one place to look", like an OS app store would be. The only way to really do that would be to integrate it to the software in some way so that users would prefer apps delivered that...

I tend to keep my site in support (habit from 26+ years working in IT) but do often hold off renewing until I need it to get an update. So I am due in May next year but if nothing seems imminent whe the time comes, I won't renew right away. The exception is when one of their occasional sales...

Actually, while I like the idea, most forums I am on have their Direct Messages in formats similar to Xenforo. That covers Xenforo sites, Circle, and the custom my writing site uses. The only one I have used that had email-style DMs was vBulletin and the last VB site I was a member on finally...

I keep getting runs of server log errors from this add-on and a couple others. Thought I would start with this one since the others are ones I don't mind keeping disabled for now. Any thoughts on what this might be? I am on the latest build. I have disabled and re-enabled a couple times, which...

I will confess to enjoying it when the "your computer is infected" scammers call given I work in IT and generally know computers better than they do. Wish I could justify the effort to create a honeypot so I could trap and torment them a bit.

I have heard of that but never seen it. It's a nice idea in principle and good for a vengeful laugh but probably makes only a scratch on the surface. LE and intelligence might make a dent. But as long as there's people giving them money, scammers will keep popping up and finding new ways to scam...

I know an accountant at work who's pretty good at running office sports pools. :cool: But with 2025 coming to a close, I'll be happy if we get 2.3.8 this year. My maintenance is paid up to May of next year so we'll see what happens in the next 6 months (I renewed for two years last time they...

I run Mint Cinnamon as my main desktop OS for personal use (work is an MS shop so Windows everywhere except a few special purpose servers). My needs aren't that complex, though. I have LibreOffice as an office suite, GIMP for image editing, and Firefox for browsing and web-based work (like...

My thinking as well. My maintenance is up in May so hopefully before then.

This can do it, too. Not necessarily statistics (maybe, I would have to check my site) but you can pick a user and see who ignores them and who they ignore. https://xenforo.com/community/resources/andrew-moderator-panel.8131/

Was it a DNS issue? It took down a couple sites that we use at work but I haven't looked into details yet. I have considered it but given our size, it kind of seems like overkill , even free. On the other hand, if it can cut down the number of bots hammering us, maybe worth trying at least free.

Well, I'm self-hosted so even if Xenforo ceases, my site will be still be operational (big argument against cloud, by the way), buying me time to look into alternatives. If a dev was going to pick up doing maintenance and fixes, then I'd happily pay for that. In the end we are a small site...

Yes but that's a question better asked in Questions and Support.