Recent content by odingalt

A long, long time ago, I started a website and I used a forums software from a competitor... and someone asked "why on Earth aren't you using XenForo?" Fast forward nearly a decade. My website has been sitting defunct for awhile... my XenForo version was 1.4.6. I'm receiving random PHP error...

Seriously, "merge" means something completely different on xenforo than it does on vbulletin. I just wiped out an entire active thread, and it cannot be undone (I have no idea who posted what). If not adding an un-done, add a warning: "Are you sure? Because merge doesn't mean what it means...

Forgot about XenForo add-ons! Thanks for taking the time to share that link here. Always a bit nervous about add-ons... as soon as I install an add-on the old caveat of "user beware, support is your problem, XenForo staff do not guarantee security or stability for third party add-ons". This...

After running PHPBB and Vbulletin for years, "Start a conversation" itself is not intuitive (to myself, other admins or moderators, nor the users). "PM" and private message are what our followers have been used to for the past 20 years. All of our users instead end up accidentally writing all...

Ok guys thanks for weighing in. Sorry again for frustrated tone of the posts early on. [Cavemen don't adapt easily to change. Unga bunga!] Will read up on everything you've posted.

I'm wary of add-ons. Are they secure? Are they officially supported if something goes wrong, or are they third party "open source"? Or do they come with an understanding that they are third party/non-supported?

I said: Then you said I am confused. I said I did not use custom Q&A. The Q&A system was defeated a long, long time ago. In some cases the spammers (overseas, working for fractions of a penny per signup) will sit there with a screen full of little windows of Q&A's and they will manually...

(Thanks for posting back will try to be more reasonable in future posts, then if somebody else finds the posts, they may actually find this thread useful too.)

"To make the Spam Cleaner available at all times, set all three values to 0." What I was afraid this meant was that it would submit all of my forum users (even the good ones) to potential automatic spam trigger and cleanup, I was afraid to enter three 0's in that XenForo might accidentally go...

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This is the reason I am ditching xenforo and going back to vbulletni.

I also read this and it's equally useless: https://xenforo.com/help/spam/

Allright day 3 and I'm ready to delete XenForo and go back to Vbulletin. I'll take getting hacked any day over getting spammed to death. On Vbulletin, I was able to insert a custom question in the middle of the registration page that spam scripts wouldn't pick up on. I got 0 (yes literally...

This doesn't work worth a ****. Where is the "Ban user - delete all posts" button?