$250 to remove brand removal?? Is this true?

[zenzenzen]

Before I buy XF, I saw that on top of the $140 licensing fee, it's an additional $250 to remove the copyright brand:

" Branding Removal - $250*
This allows you to remove the visible XenForo copyright notice from all pages."

It seems a bit high, since I'm already dropping $140 upfront

Do you guys remove the this brand/copy logo?
Are there other ways to remove the brand after spending $140? via CSS coding for example?

 

[James]

I've kind of assumed companies/users pay for branding removal for 1 of 2 reasons:

• it's a branded website and don't want to be advertising other products on their own site
• to prevent competitors from seeing the software used

if it's the latter, I hope said people also remove every reference to XF in the templates.

 

[FTL]

Before I buy XF, I saw that on top of the $140 licensing fee, it's an additional $250 to remove the copyright brand:

" Branding Removal - $250*
This allows you to remove the visible XenForo copyright notice from all pages."

It seems a bit high, since I'm already dropping $140 upfront

Do you guys remove the this brand/copy logo?

Whether that cost is high or not is a matter of perspective. From a business viewpoint it's actually quite cheap and why would you want to remove it if a private user?

As a private user, even if the option was free, I'd still keep it.

Are there other ways to remove the brand after spending $140? via CSS coding for example?

Any other way of doing it is illegal and effectively piracy. Don't do it.

 

[AndrewSimm]

Whether that cost is high or not is a matter of perspective. From a business viewpoint it's actually quite cheap and why would you want to remove it if a private user?

As a private user, even if the option was free, I'd still keep it.



Any other way of doing it is illegal and effectively piracy. Don't do it.

Not sure I understand your take.

A pricing being high or not is 100% a perspective. There isn't a specific amount of money that makes a price high or lower. The perspective will largely depend on factors like the current income of the business/person and the perceived value of branding free.

 

[FTL]

Not sure I understand your take.

A pricing being high or not is 100% a perspective.

I literally said it's perspective, it's right there in your quote and I was responding to zenzenzen who thought it's a bit high.

Your post has made me realised however, that they asked this back in April 2018 and haven't been seen since. I wouldn't have bothered replying if I'd realised that lol.

 

[CedricV]

Most members on a community couldn’t care less what software you are running and if or not you have a copyright of said software.

That being said, is there some sort of statistic how much procent of all licenses that have bought the copyright removal?

 

[lanbin]

Perhaps some people like the inscription 'Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2024 XenForo Ltd.', but it definitely annoyed me with its appearance. That's why I paid to remove the copyrights, but it's been years and I still haven't launched any forum) It's just a hobby for me to see what's new, etc. With the release of 2.3, I think I'll come up with something. I like that now there are features like IndexNow, Schema, and support for dark theme.

 

[Baby Community]

Perhaps some people like the inscription 'Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2024 XenForo Ltd.', but it definitely annoyed me with its appearance. That's why I paid to remove the copyrights, but it's been years and I still haven't launched any forum) It's just a hobby for me to see what's new, etc. With the release of 2.3, I think I'll come up with something. I like that now there are features like IndexNow, Schema, and support for dark theme.

There are no user-friendly improvements in xenforo. Also there are more problems than other forums. Why did I choose xenforo? Because xenforo is a security-first software. Even Vbulletin is licensed software and there are still mysql vulnerabilities even in the latest version.

Of course, you should keep the security of your server at the highest level as well as xenforo.

Look, with the xenforo2.3 version, the mobile look has just started to improve. Progress is slow, but security is a must.

 

[FTL]

There are no user-friendly improvements in xenforo.

That really bugs me.

xenforo is a security-first software.

Indeed that's critical. Security is the one and only reason that I defected from Android to iPhone. So many security holes in Android phones that it's just unreal.

 

[MapleOne]

That really bugs me.

If you're talking about the back end the search function is your friend, once you figure that out the control panel is quite manageable.

On the front end.... hey whatever you don't like, there is probably a mod.

 

[FTL]

I just meant fully fleshed out user features that one would use every day for users, mods and admins. We've already got some admin level stuff, but perhaps more batching functions would be handy, stuff like that. Hard to think of specifics off the top of my head. We've finally got webp support for example, but having avif too would be great as it compresses even better and it too is widely supported.

I have quite a few mods installed to fill in the blanks, especially from @AndyB.

 

[Mendalla]

I have quite a few mods installed to fill in the blanks

I have a selection of free mods and most of them are features I wouldn't mind seeing in base (and I have voted for some related suggestions when I have found them) but for my forum, it mostly works fine out of box. If I was running something bigger and more elaborate, maybe I would find more issues.

But I do agree that there's a dearth of cool user-facing features in 2.3 relative to 2.1 and 2.2 and even the performance and back-end features are not critical to my site. I have said little to my users about a possible upgrade, and might just do it as a quiet, back-end upgrade with little fanfare, more like how I do third point updates. And I'm not touching it until 2.3.1 comes out and various add-ons are ready. I see no reason not to hold on 2.2.16p2 until I feel 2.3 is ready.

 

[FTL]

Agreed, best to wait until the niggles are ironed out. The flag clearance bug is quite irksome, so I don't want to introduce this bug which everyone will notice. Funny thing is that I've not seen it here, but seen it on a friend's site where he upgraded a few days ago. I wonder if it has something to do with the PHP and / or database versions or the hosting, maybe.

I also have to check that my homemade theme created by a friend works properly with it, as I've got no support for that. I've installed 2.3 locally and will copy the theme to it and see.

 

[KaaPlop]

Worth noting you can buy it at any time so you can make the decision later if you don’t want to buy it now.

So why Puchase a software that imposes such a restriction on a custom code edit for profit. How do you sell code and then resell that code If a dev implements a custom code edit.

FFS what next you charge for email sent, custom CSS code or installing a custom add-on .

 

[philmckrackon]

So why Puchase a software that imposes such a restriction on a custom code edit for profit. How do you sell code and then resell that code If a dev implements a custom code edit.

FFS what next you charge for email sent, custom CSS code or installing a custom add-on .

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[Arantor]

So why Puchase a software that imposes such a restriction on a custom code edit for profit. How do you sell code and then resell that code If a dev implements a custom code edit.

FFS what next you charge for email sent, custom CSS code or installing a custom add-on .

Branding removal has always been charged for, the other things have 15 years of precedent of not being charged for.

The simple truth is that branding is advertising the platform to other people.

 

[80sDude]

I never liked the idea of having to pay to remove a branding fee considering you paid for the software and have to continue to pay in order to receive updates etc but that's just my opinion. There's nothing that you and I can do about that. Just pay the branding fee and that's all or just don't purchase the software. Those are the only two options.

 

[Forsaken]

So why Puchase a software that imposes such a restriction on a custom code edit for profit. How do you sell code and then resell that code If a dev implements a custom code edit.

FFS what next you charge for email sent, custom CSS code or installing a custom add-on .

Yes, people who complain about the cost of copyright should do this, so that their license gets taken away and they're banned so no one here has to deal with them any longer.

 

[mjda]

Just pay the branding fee and that's all or just don't purchase the software. Those are the only two options.

I mean, you could also take option 3, which is what a vast majority of XF owners do, which is just use the software with the branding.

 

[80sDude]

I mean, you could also take option 3, which is what a vast majority of XF owners do, which is just use the software with the branding.

I'm referring to those that don't want to look at the copyright on the bottom of the screen. Option 3 goes without saying.

 

[mjda]

I'm referring to those that don't want to look at the copyright on the bottom of the screen. Option 3 goes without saying.

I gotcha. I didn't catch that from the context of your post and, on this forum, you never know if it isn't said.