Grover
Well-known member
I am investigating switching my platform from vBulletin to XenForo in the future and I wondered this:
On vBulletin my statistics (on the frontpage) show this:
However, when you go to the memberlist http://www.mysite.com/forum/memberlist.php then the amount of members is much less (in my case... about 4.000 members less!). I assume because in the memberlist only members who have clicked on the link in their registration-confirmation email are listed. So members who missed this email (in 99% of the cases due to #@#$% spam filters) are not listed and are in fact not a 'real' member, since they are not able to post and are basically still just 'guests'.
First it is strange that vBulletin shows 2 different amounts, but this is not a vBulletin support forum is it? . What I would like to know is: what happens if I transfer my vBulletin site to XenForo? Will XenForo still list the same amount of members on the XF frontpage as it is listed on my current vB frontpage? Or will XF list the amount of members on the frontpage that vBulletin lists in the Memberlist?
It's a small thing ofcourse, but our celebrating member-milestone announcements are based upon the number on the frontpage, so if XF would switch that number to the 'Memberlist' number, we will suddenly be going down in the our 'official' member count.
On vBulletin my statistics (on the frontpage) show this:
Forum statistics
Discussions: 15.281, Postings: 262.143, Members: 21.452
However, when you go to the memberlist http://www.mysite.com/forum/memberlist.php then the amount of members is much less (in my case... about 4.000 members less!). I assume because in the memberlist only members who have clicked on the link in their registration-confirmation email are listed. So members who missed this email (in 99% of the cases due to #@#$% spam filters) are not listed and are in fact not a 'real' member, since they are not able to post and are basically still just 'guests'.
First it is strange that vBulletin shows 2 different amounts, but this is not a vBulletin support forum is it? . What I would like to know is: what happens if I transfer my vBulletin site to XenForo? Will XenForo still list the same amount of members on the XF frontpage as it is listed on my current vB frontpage? Or will XF list the amount of members on the frontpage that vBulletin lists in the Memberlist?
It's a small thing ofcourse, but our celebrating member-milestone announcements are based upon the number on the frontpage, so if XF would switch that number to the 'Memberlist' number, we will suddenly be going down in the our 'official' member count.