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What would you say are the major benefits of xenforo over other forum software?
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MySiteGuy
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Plus finer control over permissions, style settings and settings generally. Whether or not these are major depends on the use case.
This is incorrect.
If you really want to have a default style which is left completely untouched and unused for the very rare occasion you may need one for troubleshooting style issues, the new default style you create should have no parent.
IPB is very enterprise focused - both in pricing + feature set. E.g if itās a must have for yku to be able to link your community to a business CRM system, then IPB is probably the way to go. Itās a good platform, but I generally prefer XF and find it easier to use. I run sites across both IPB and XF and will probably end up consolidating on XF.
XF is on the whole fairly intuitive, and easy to customise.
I havenāt used Wotlab recently, or any of the free alternatives.
One thing Iād suggest - set up a demo, and play about with the ACP and feature set. If youāre just looking to create a new community, then XF is a good option. If you have a specific feature in mind thatās a āmust haveā, then youāll probably need to review each platform to see how well it supports that feature.
Davyc
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Then XF is a good bet as it covers both. If you want a more advanced article system then @Bob is the best out there, you can see it in action on:
XenAddons - XenForo Add-ons & Custom Development
XenForo Add-ons Development, Support and Custom Development
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On my Spiritual site (the link is in my signature) I've just used the built in article option of XF to push my articles out there.
I've demoed Woltlab and it's a nice system, but not so easy to customise as XF and I like getting my hands dirty lol. Feel free to visit any of my sites linked in my signature, they all use XF. Good luck to you regardless of where you lay your hat, we need more people opening forum sites.
TPerry
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XF is one of the easier scripts to "style" in many ways. There are a ton of style properties available that control many aspects of it when compared to IPS (4.3 version I ran, but I doubt it's improved much considering what they did with ability to do custom CSS edits).
You can also tweak a site quite a bit with simple CSS/LESS code in
extra.less which is a standard template in XF.In fact, the pipe site in my sig is basically a default XF style that has been primarily tweaked via
extra.less with some slightuse of the style properties options.
Forsaken
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Default theme just inherits from Master, so you can just create a new Default.Errr... until you need to test something under a default style and don't want to have to go through the trouble of creating it again.
It's simpler leaving the default style untouched and disabled for normal users, create a new style and mess with it. How often have we been asked "does it work under the default style" when pursuing support (either via ticket or from community).
Mendalla
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Fairly complete basic feature set, even if there is room for improvement. For all its flaws, the editor (Froala) does the job well for basic posting. Management is fairly easy if you're comfortable around computers and have a good basic knowledge set about them. Has both cloud and self-hosted options so you have choice in how to run it (I'm self-hosted but that's because I predate the cloud). Has support and a strong, supportive user community, which puts it a notch above a lot of the open source options I've seen. Just some first thoughts. That said, I've only been a user or mod on other systems, XF is the only one where I've been an admin/sysadmin.
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myBB, vBulletin and PHPBB too.
What would you say you prefer about xenforo ocmpared to IPB?
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How do both the features as well as the mod panel compare on XF to other forum softwares?
i believe IBP also have a strong user support doesnāt it?
Wing
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PhpBB isnāt that bad for a free forum. I would actually say itās better than SMF imo
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I donāt believe IPB is free. Would you say SMF is better even in comparison to XF?
Mr Lucky
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You can try both out for free and you'll get a much better idea for yourself - way better grasp of the pros and cons and how it suits you. I am biased because I have used phpBB, Simple Forums, IPB, vBulletin and I know that xenForo is way ahead for my needs and desires. But everyone is different...
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How would you compare the user friendliness between SMF and XF?
Iāve never used SMF AFAIK, and I typically go on forums hosted on XF.
Ricsca
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Can't compare...
It depends on your community.
If you plan to do a lot of articles you can also use wordpress + bbpress.
Starting a new forum today is not easy.
If you're starting from scratch and you don't need a mod gallery I'd start with smf and then if the site starts working you migrate to xf
It depends on your community.
If you plan to do a lot of articles you can also use wordpress + bbpress.
Starting a new forum today is not easy.
If you're starting from scratch and you don't need a mod gallery I'd start with smf and then if the site starts working you migrate to xf
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Thank you for your views. As a software engineer, Iām flexible. I was hoping for as many views as possible from whatās most user friendly for the end user.
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