I haven't used SMF too in depth but XenForo while expensive for small communities especially as there's plenty of options (personally I like Discourse) I really like the look and feel of XF and there's from my experience a lot more in the XenForo administration panel as compared to SMF...
Not sure if it can be disabled fully but there is an option "Only send watched content alerts/emails to users active in last:" and this could help improve and save on performance
A Forum community for the online game/platform Roblox. Has been running since July 2024 in December 2024 we made a switch to XenForo and I have no regrets (don't get me wrong Discourse is good to lol) Website is using the themehouse theme UI.X 2 dark with CSS modifications.
Known issues...
Hey XF Community, I was wondering if there would be any way to integrate XenForo 2.3 and OSSN with a SSO (Single sign-on) system. This was just something I was experimenting with 😓. My XF and OSSN hosting setup is just a simple shared hosting plan from Namecheap. Thanks in advance! ❤️
I also ended up getting the importer to work the way I did it was copy the discourse database and upload in a database that wasn't in the docker container with that I was then able to connect to it and run the importer the only issue I ran into was password encryption I just commented all that...