Recent content by AjayJunkies

Nobody* wants to waste their time and search Fixed that for us This is not directed at anyone, and I see this sentiment over and over again among forum owners, but it's the height of hubris among forum owners to think that it's an admirable quality for users to have to trawl through extraneous...

The default XenForo contains an article style that I feel like is vastly under-utilized. One of the nice things is that it's incorporated directly into the forums, which tends to be the main hub of the community. If you use an add-on like AMS (which is an excellent add-on, for the record...

So, I want to take a moment because while I understand the well-meaning intent behind your statement (and by the way, in no way am I targeting you, this is a sentiment that I see all th etime from the XF community: "just use a third party add-on!"), it's not JUST a social feed. Social...

This is a reflection of forum engagement and forum administration in general. We've all grown up, the web has matured, forum excitement has tapered.

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

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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...

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