Indeed. There will always be copycats....and that's a good thing. Keeps people thinking creatively to produce something better than the competition.Well, it's certainly not like XenForo is the first to have a like system. It was, after all, started by Facebook - unless they got it from somewhere else.
Why does everyone think that "alerts" or "notifications" is something XF started? We've had notifications with IPB for quite some time. With all the feedback, they are changing the options for notifications.
The like button can be argued to be taken from vBSEO adding it to vB...and they stole it from fb.
I do, however, like the way XF's like button is compared to that of IPB's.
@PEGGY - You may not have said compare IPB v1 to XF v1, but I know someone did in this thread which is why I put it in my post. Sorry if you thought it was aimed at you in my last reply.
Like it or not, we are a very small development team doing our best to compete with much larger rivals. Some of that competition is friendly, some distinctly less so. While we develop fast, a great deal of time is spent developing features before any code is written. Often, the amount of time spent writing code is a fraction of the actual development time for a feature. As a result, in order to maintain a competitive edge, it is necessary to keep the development of certain features close to our chest, in order to prevent rivals from benefiting from work we have done before we are able to do so. You only need look at what our competitors have done since the appearance of XenForo to see that this is true.
No, but many of the fanboys here seem to think XF was the first.XenForo doesn't claim to be the inventor of those ideas... it's just how it actually came through and integrated it flawlessly.
I stand corrected. Thanks hun.@PEGGY - You may not have said compare IPB v1 to XF v1, but I know someone did in this thread which is why I put it in my post. Sorry if you thought it was aimed at you in my last reply.
No, but many of the fanboys here seem to think XF was the first.
Exactly.I don't see the big deal about this copying thing now all of a sudden, it was going on between IPB and vBulletin for a long time beforehand, most of you know this coming from vBulletin or IPB. It's not something that's only just started happening.
Why does everyone think that "alerts" or "notifications" is something XF started? We've had notifications with IPB for quite some time. With all the feedback, they are changing the options for notifications.
The like button can be argued to be taken from vBSEO adding it to vB...and they stole it from fb.
I do, however, like the way XF's like button is compared to that of IPB's.
@PEGGY - You may not have said compare IPB v1 to XF v1, but I know someone did in this thread which is why I put it in my post. Sorry if you thought it was aimed at you in my last reply.
Yes but it is rubbish... and so bloody annoying, even after you read a PM or took action, they just kept building... arghghgghghgghghghg... horrible horrible system.
Exactly the same with the IPB Rep system, it was horrible, and no one ever used it. Likes are so much more intuitive, and generate a lot more usage.. as IPB have discovered by observing Xenforo very closely.
My comments earlier that got a few in a tizz about the version numbers were not literal comparisons... sheez! I was referring to the state of the Organisation at that time, I can tell you that at the time of 1.0.0 IPB was not a big player, many thought we were insane to be switching from vBulletin to it. And now 9 years down the track they are a major player, some might argue THE major player in commercial forum software.
Yes but it is rubbish... and so bloody annoying, even after you read a PM or took action, they just kept building... arghghgghghgghghghg... horrible horrible system.
Exactly the same with the IPB Rep system, it was horrible, and no one ever used it. Likes are so much more intuitive, and generate a lot more usage.. as IPB have discovered by observing Xenforo very closely.
My comments earlier that got a few in a tizz about the version numbers were not literal comparisons... sheez! I was referring to the state of the Organisation at that time, I can tell you that at the time of 1.0.0 IPB was not a big player, many thought we were insane to be switching from vBulletin to it. And now 9 years down the track they are a major player, some might argue THE major player in commercial forum software.
heh didn't you hear? Sense is not that common anymore.Sometimes you really have to literally spell it out to people hence my comment they missed your and peggy's point. What ever happened to common sense? god almighty.
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