Recent content by AjayJunkies

I am a long time customer of Invision and Xenforo, and actively run forums on both. There are some very talented third party tech admins that provide paid migration Invision to XF if you don't want to do it yourself. It's probably the biggest migration happening for independent forum owners...

Well, actually, I do expect a company to notify me of any forthcoming price increase. (Maybe not a hypothetical increase that is "years down the road," but certainly for an upcoming version that is being released for one year ) I just want to add that I find XF to be very reasonable priced. I...

Xenforo incorporates responsive design, which means it adapts to any screen size. You can visit these forums on your phone and tablet to see responsive design in action 🙂

Totally random aside and observation, but Community Tip #25 from Admin Junkies: The term for when users get incredibly passionate over something they helped create is Psychological Ownership. This concept, sometimes called the "IKEA effect" in consumer behavior, describes the intense feeling...

I always find conversations about pricing to be fascinating. Some observations in no particular order: 1. Pricing is relative. What is expensive for one person is cheap for another. Factors like geography, personal income, personal spending, national currency etc. are all contextual to the...

Then what was your question? Because the title of your post literally asks if developers should take bank charges into account

You save on server fees, installation, upgrade, and licensing renewals. It's an all-inclusive option for those who want to focus only on running their communities, without worrying about the technical configuration of servers.

You are confounding individual exceptions with aggregate experience. Yes, individual forums can and do thrive. In no way did I intend to impose the same stroke of failure on every forum. But in aggregate? We cannot pretend that every forum is doing better than they were ten years ago. The...

I would like to make the gentle observation that, well, Internet users have overwhelmingly collectively left our forums to social engagement platforms. Do any of us actually expect XF to overhaul the forum layout to match social engagement? No. But there are clear benefits to personalized...

Some thoughts: 1. What we, as forum admins want, may not be what users want. Forum admins want more traffic, more page views, and therefore more adsense dollars. But visitors want quick, accurate answers (and in that order). No one actually wants to read through 100 meandering pages of forum...

I recommend @MySiteGuy . He's been great with our hosting and any technical issues, and his pricing is very reasonable.

There should be no difference between the data files or Invision self hosted or Invision cloud. You would ask for an export of your database and files. The only thing you may want to think about is extending your cloud by one month just in case you need more time to test the import to XF.

I don't know who needs to hear this and this is not addressed to any one person, but AI summarization of our posts is already happening at scale. With or without your input. Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and ChatGPT search are all summarizing our content. Whether or not to show...

This is one of those ideas that sound great in theory, but very hard to implement in practice. The fact that XF has a written policy (!) specifically prohibiting crowdfunding inform you about past experiences.

Same with us on Admin-Junkies.com We normally see 600 guests, we are up to 1400 (x2.5 increase). Someone's AI bot is vacuuming up our forum conversations 🙂 This just started about a day ago.