Recent content by zappaDPJ

I agree, it's something I actively discourage on all my forums.

Ultimately it's what allows you to buy the software for $195. Branding is advertising. It's what helps keep the product at an affordable price. Remove the branding and you may reduce the likelihood of further sales which in turn could result in an increase in the product price.

I agree it is a balancing act but in my experience it's reasonably easy to deter spammers while allowing genuine registrations an easy passage. In the main I use the same process as @Wing has suggested. I find the right Q&A generally lasts at least a year or two and is 100% effective. If and...

Cause and effect perhaps? Potential members really don't have the patience these days to eyeball grainy images of distant traffic lights or take a zillion guesses at decomposing characters or anything that goes beyond a couple of clicks to register. Just a thought :)

I was thinking more along the lines of... :LOL:

It's inevitable and probably sooner rather than later. Even my toothbrush is driven by AI! I think it depends on how its implemented. I'd have no real problem with AI powered tools that assist with engagement but AI created content... no thanks. I think it depends on the niche. I'd argue that...

As a forum owner, admin and even as a user I prefer to use a desktop myself but desktop use within my forums is negligible so I have to give priority to members using smart devices. In the same way Xenforo gives priority to the desktop but still caters for mobile, it stands to reason that the...

And yet if you ignore the outlandish management style and dubious pricing policy, Invision offers many of the progressions that Xenforo has left sitting in the Suggestion Forum. It's properly mobile-first rather than desktop centric, has a comparatively bug free editor, drag and drop page...

Just imagine what AI will capable of when paired with a quantum processor. Prototypes are currently running at 1,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than today's fastest super computer.

That's not how it appears to me. The majority of replies before the thread morphed into a more general chat centred around content discovery in one form or another, something that's alien to most social media platforms that cater for short life content. The one strength that forums have over...

AI driven content discovery and search. A better editor.

Recent history suggests there's nothing much to communicate other than what's already been said. I'd argue if they have the financial resources to hire anyone it should be another developer. Better that than have a dedicated spokesperson reporting there's nothing to report.

Nobody, ever. Or at least that's my experience. I have it in the T&Cs of my longest running forum (18 years, 3 months) that a $100 Amazon voucher is there for the taking by any forum member who wants to claim it. No one ever has which suggests to me that no one ever reads T&Cs.

It's the same for me.

The Tiptap editor is currently beta testing a major upgrade to version 3.0. It might be that the developers here are delaying 2.4 because of it. That of course is pure speculation on my part.