Nothing to complain about regarding XenForo here, I just finished converting our site from Invision Community and the velocity working with XenForo has been insane. I'm just putting this out there for any IPB admin of a medium to medium-large forum, especially one that's gathered some age; it's not that bad of a rewrite in my opinion.
I've been with Invision power for a long time, ~10 years now. They didn't give me the warm fuzzies in the early days working with them, but it's become increasingly clear that my business isn't welcome there. This isn't a thread to just complain about Invision, but I think it's important to see where the commercial forum software bar is.
My renewal cost drifted up to $200/yr for a single site.
I had some websites with Invision Community (formerly known as Invision Power Board) and both had extensive custom development in both the theme and plugins. I'm not an expert but I've been around the block. If I had to list some complaints:
Thanks for the solid documentation by the way.
The seamless integration with SMTP2GO, Akismet, hCaptcha, and StopForumSpam eliminated a long-running issue we've had with spam-bots hammering the site. These anti-spam integrations also don't stop working if I stop paying XenForo.
Big fan, I hope XenForo sticks around for a long time.
I've been with Invision power for a long time, ~10 years now. They didn't give me the warm fuzzies in the early days working with them, but it's become increasingly clear that my business isn't welcome there. This isn't a thread to just complain about Invision, but I think it's important to see where the commercial forum software bar is.
My renewal cost drifted up to $200/yr for a single site.
I had some websites with Invision Community (formerly known as Invision Power Board) and both had extensive custom development in both the theme and plugins. I'm not an expert but I've been around the block. If I had to list some complaints:
- In my opinion, support was utterly abysmal. It started off so-so and declined steadily.
- The push towards their cloud offering is real. There's even a button you can "dismiss for a while" to buy cloud in the Admin CP. They only gave that option to "dismiss for a while" after real backlash.
- Their pricing for self-hosted is almost parody-level at this point. Near the end I was paying $200/year for one site and in return I got security updates that broke forum functionality, the theme, and the plugins on my installation.
- You have to keep paying that sub, however, to keep the subscription to their spam account filter. Something I feel like I get equivalently for free with XenForo's StopForumSpam integration.
- Features are starting to drift into the cloud offering that aren't making it down-stream to their quite expensive self-hosted option. Which by the way, the sales slick on their front page doesn't mention now. You have to dig for the self-hosted option on their site.
- It ate ~60% more resources on my VPS compared to XenForo now. I went from my resources being constantly pegged to around 30% usage.
Thanks for the solid documentation by the way.
The seamless integration with SMTP2GO, Akismet, hCaptcha, and StopForumSpam eliminated a long-running issue we've had with spam-bots hammering the site. These anti-spam integrations also don't stop working if I stop paying XenForo.
Big fan, I hope XenForo sticks around for a long time.
