Recent content by Joe Blow

Some may not use such a feature, but it's really just a better, more comprehensive version of an existing feature that hasn't been updated in 25 years. The existing "ignore" feature is hopeless. Almost everything has been improved at some stage except for this sad old relic from the 20th...

Some might, but the lack of this functionality is creating huge problems in my community. I don't think I'm alone. This is 2024, the level of sensitivity is at all all time high. People don't want to see any content from some users and don't want their content to be seen by them. Other social...

I vote for a proper block functionality in the core software. It's about 10 years overdue.

I've asked for this functionality numerous times but the developers aren't interested in it. This is 2024. People are now about 100x more sensitive than they were 20 years ago. Some forum members want to make certain other users just disappear and that means all trace of them. This is probably...

It is no surprise to me that this thread is getting no response from the developers. I would also be embarrassed if I had failed to address one of the most significant deficiencies in Xenforo since it was first released. This has obviously gone in the too hard basket even though it is clearly...

Why would a widget be caching content suddenly when it wasn't previously? The content isn't dynamic, it's just text content in the widget. Does anyone have any ideas? I don't want any widget to cache content.

it always bothered me to see forum content increasingly ignored by Google starting about 10 or 12 years ago. Most "articles" on Wordpress sites are actually just promotional pages with affiliate links and for that reason the accuracy and usefulness of the content is questionable and likely...

Forums need to learn from social media. Not in order to become social media but to learn how to compete better with social media. There are some things social media does better than forums and some things it does a lot worse. Learn from the things social media does better and use that knowledge...

Uh, no. I will renew when I feel I am getting value for the $ I am spending. At the moment, that's not happening.

Used it once in 12 years.

I've been running the forum since 2004. I'm one version off the latest version. It's running fine so don't worry. There's been one software update this year. I'm not paying the renewal fee for that level of release activity.

Don't renew. Why waste your money on one software update a year? My license expired eight months ago and I probably won't renew for another 12 months, if then. Why renew when the developers aren't releasing updates? Stop throwing money down the drain.

I've been using forums since 2001 so i know how they work, and so do most people my age. But show a forum to someone who is 20 and watch their reaction. The UI is dated. Young people today want something simpler and more intuitive, especially on mobile. Those who think design from the 1990s is...

There is virtually nobody on my 20 year old forum that is under 30 years of age because forum software looks like something their Grandpa would use. And they're right. The internet keep on evolving and while forums are a great platform, the design is very dated. The internet never stops...

The lack of an advanced ignore/block feature in 2023 is probably the weakest aspect of Xenforo. People expect to be able to control whose posts they see, what threads they see, and what forums they see. Give the users complete control over their forum experience and let them customise it. The...