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    Analytics Software Alternatives for GA

    Because Google is banned in China (as we understand it). Our Chinese friends highly advised removing all Google products and fonts from our forums if we wanted to return to this market (years ago Chinese traffic was almost 1/2 of the most valuable traffic for us).
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    DNTalks.com is now on Xenforo!

    Hi, do you still have some backups files of DNTalks? I am happy to resurrect it. H
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    Buying forums is a tricky business. .. the worst part > quite often the buyer (who has the best intentions and no desire destroying a community) gets hatred from many old members, who quite often don't wish to see that the old owner just wanted "out" and some cash. if Vertical Scope are reading...
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    If you have members who are older or less tech savvy folk, have you done anything to make your site easier to use?

    ahh.. this reminds me of our German forum that is a total mess of categories :D :D
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    If you have members who are older or less tech savvy folk, have you done anything to make your site easier to use?

    Most old people will have old computers > Google ads overload the use of RAM immediatelly Yes, most us us run monster machines > try opening your forum, probably overloaded with Google ads, on your mum's computer > it might freeze up the all browser. Sell the banner space to end users...
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    XF 2.1 Does anyone have xf running on kubernetes?

    Good thread!! We are currently considering to migrate our 3 XF forums, currently running on dedicated servers, to a Kubernetes cluster (also to be set up on dedicated servers). Aim: to improve scalability and resource efficiency. This is especially important, as we keep improving (making more...
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    Online/Offline avatar indicator like instagram

    @Pew Pew let us try this out :) Looks cool! Full: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/online-offline-avatar-indicator-like-instagram.8246/ tx
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    Video Chat

    hmm.. really interesting thought.. yes, this would add significant costs, though could be an insane feature
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    Need Help: Unusually High Traffic on Niche Forum

    .. I would suggest talking to @MattW I'm a very satisfied customer of his
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    Which SMTP provider do you use to send transactional emails?

    Sending around 50k newsletter emails on Tuesdays (1 forum sends 41k+ another 8k+).. SES rejected us. We are using our own SMTP VPSs (also for costs) an over-kill dedicated server at Hetzner (we are still playing in trying to understand our/Postal bottlenecks) VPSs created using Virtualizor...
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    .. I don't anything about how they operate their business, and don't have opinion about them. What I am sure of - they have a wealth of experience both good and painful. Super interested in this. .. I own a niche forum (close to my heart - a forum for Latvian webmasters) that I bought in 2015...
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    I would appreciate an introduction to a VerticalScope team member. .. really curious how they run their forums. Do they attend any events? I’d probably fly halfway around the world to meet them at a business event or two. It’s easy to criticize someone, and even easier to mismanage a forum...
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    How to buy a XenForo forum?!

    .. an older thread. Yes, I have bought couple forums before. You will need to look for these deals yourself. Gl
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    XF 2.2 Looking for an advice for crafting transactional email templates

    Have you cracked styling your transactional email template? Registration confirmation, notices etc. Any advice / samples? Thank you, Helmuts
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    Latvian language translation for Xenforo 2.30

    Helmuts submitted a new resource: Latvian language translation for Xenforo 2.30 - Latvian language translation for Xenforo 2.30 Read more about this resource...
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