Any good news? Please help to stop rumors...

[craigiri]

Slavik, when do you expect 1.1.4?

 

[CTXMedia]

I'm still waiting for this!

 

[Pereira]

I heard 1.1.3 includes a time warp generator, a gold making machine, a 2lbs bar of cadburys chocolate, and finally the ability to force the masses to sign up to your forum and make it an overnight success

Originally it was also going to include the ability to print your own money, but that was postponed.

How i know all this?

My cousins mothers, uncles fathers friends neighbors ex bosses sisters hairdresser once almost drank a full glass of water

The connection?

all 3 members of KAM drinks water!

Therefore clearly with such a well established connection to KAM my contact must know exactly whats going on.

Best thing I've read on here in quite awhile.

 

[BGL]

I don't think you can bash them for not renewing for 10 years

Rumors created by XenForo silence are then fed by the site going down and renewal expiring. Instead of renewing for a few years, they renew for one like they are not sure they will continue and have less than $34.99 confidence they'll be around two years. I think it is fair to be critical of not renewing for at least five years as a major PR and marketing mistake.

If I felt I was throwing my money away or KAM were knowingly taking my cash with no plans to further develop XF - then that would be a different story; I'd be a fool and have to find an alternative solution and I'd likely never trust them again or support them in any other web venture!

What's giving me pause building with Xenforo now is the mobile interface issue. Others are spending big resources to make sure they are mobile accessible and seamlessly functional and unless XenForo teams with Tapatalk to do this, that is the biggest problem I see for XenForo right now.

 

[Kevin]

Rumors created by XenForo silence are then fed by the site going down and renewal expiring. Instead of renewing for a few years, they renew for one like they are not sure they will continue and have less than $34.99 confidence they'll be around two years. I think it is fair to be critical of not renewing for at least five years as a major PR and marketing mistake.

Yeah, they should definitely renew their domain for several years forward, like vBulletin!

http://www.whois.com/whois/vbulletin.com

Oh, wait, never mind, they are set to expire next April. In that case, like Invision then!

http://www.whois.com/whois/invisionpower.com

Oh, dear.. they will expire in February! Let's try phpBB. Yeah... like phpBB then!

http://www.whois.com/whois/phpbb.com

Aw, nuts! They're set to expire this August.

 

[Chris D]

Kevin, I should not have had a mouthful of drink when I read that

 

[CTXMedia]

What's giving me pause building with Xenforo now is the mobile interface issue. Others are spending big resources to make sure they are mobile accessible and seamlessly functional and unless XenForo teams with Tapatalk to do this, that is the biggest problem I see for XenForo right now.

I agree - that's an important consideration nowadays and I think a lot of us are waiting to see what the XF team come up with.

 

[craigiri]

It's all fitting into place now...amazing how the universe always bends to fix right into any box that the mind can come up with.....


Hey, I think KAM is doing the "Beatles" thing! Those who are old enough remember that Paul must be dead because of this and that, and if you play the end of some songs backwards it will say "Paul is Dead", etc. etc.

 

[TNCclubman]

so are you saying we should blame rock and roll because of the gyrating hips?

 

[BGL]

Yeah, they should definitely renew their domain for several years forward, like vBulletin!

We are talking about what could XenForo do to restore customer confidence after that the public relations and operations error of letting its domain name expire and its website go down.

That XenForo did not have $34.99 (the cost of an additional year of domain name registration) worth of confidence it will be around in another year is not a good signal to be sending after letting the domain name expire and the site go down.

 

[Kevin]

We are talking about what could XenForo do to restore customer confidence after that the public relations and operations error of letting its domain name expire and its website go down.

That XenForo did not have $34.99 (the cost of an additional year of domain name registration) worth of confidence it will be around in another year is not a good signal to be sending after letting the domain name expire and the site go down.

Stop making up stuff (eg: "XenForo did not have $34.99") and your confidence level will likely increase. As long as you continue to pull stuff out of thin air then you'll never have the confidence you are looking for.

 

[BGL]

Stop making up stuff (eg: "XenForo did not have $34.99")

It's a real number, Network Solutions Domain Name Registration, but you can do it for less.

As long as you continue to pull stuff out of thin air then you'll never have the confidence you are looking for.

You don't sound very confident.

 

[Russ]

We are talking about what could XenForo do to restore customer confidence after that the public relations and operations error of letting its domain name expire and its website go down.

That XenForo did not have $34.99 (the cost of an additional year of domain name registration) worth of confidence it will be around in another year is not a good signal to be sending after letting the domain name expire and the site go down.

Give it a break already.

 

[BGL]

Give it a break already.

Thought the same thing when the "Leave XenForo Alone" posters started putting up the overused "funny" cat pix.

 

[Russ]

Thought the same thing when the "Leave XenForo Alone" posters started putting up the overused "funny" cat pix.

I'm not saying XenForo is perfect but you're dragging the domain renewal thing on saying they don'thave "35" bucks to renew it. Larger companies have had the same thing hapen, larger companies with more money, so as I said, give it a break.

 

[Kevin]

It's a real number, Network Solutions Domain Name Registration, but you can do it for less.

So what if it is a real number, nobody said it wasn't. It has nothing to do with anything though. That XF uses auto-renewal, just like a lot like of other organizations, is not a big deal. You continuing to fabricate stories is getting a bit tedious though.

You don't sound very confident.

 

[Onimua]

We are talking about what could XenForo do to restore customer confidence after that the public relations and operations error of letting its domain name expire and its website go down.

That XenForo did not have $34.99 (the cost of an additional year of domain name registration) worth of confidence it will be around in another year is not a good signal to be sending after letting the domain name expire and the site go down.

... but they renewed, and here we are. They said auto-renewal is set but it didn't work for some reason. It's even been stated that sometimes auto-renew doesn't work when it should; it's not the first time. It's likely auto-renew is applied to all the domains Kevin pointed out and has nothing to do with "lack of confidence" in them being around for another X amount of years.

It is nothing but trying to make a big deal over something that was sorted out very quickly.

 

[BGL]

I'm not saying XenForo is perfect but you're dragging the domain renewal thing on saying they don'thave "35" bucks to renew it. Larger companies have had the same thing hapen, larger companies with more money, so as I said, give it a break.

Actually the conversation was more about mobile interface issues going forward and then one of the "Leave XenForo Alone" crew just couldn't give it a break...hmm.

What's giving me pause building with Xenforo now is the mobile interface issue. Others are spending big resources to make sure they are mobile accessible and seamlessly functional and unless XenForo teams with Tapatalk to do this, that is the biggest problem I see for XenForo right now.

I agree - that's an important consideration nowadays and I think a lot of us are waiting to see what the XF team come up with.

 

[CTXMedia]

We are talking about what could XenForo do to restore customer confidence after that the public relations and operations error of letting its domain name expire and its website go down.

That XenForo did not have $34.99 (the cost of an additional year of domain name registration) worth of confidence it will be around in another year is not a good signal to be sending after letting the domain name expire and the site go down.

It was unfortunate and somewhat embarrasing that it expired, but the responsibility for the renewal was with the registrar since it was set to automatically renew (and with auto-renewal it's usually just for the next year, which what most of the competitors are likely to be doing to as well).

The XF site itself didn't go down - you could still access it directly from its IP address - what happened was the registrar automatically reset DNS on expiry; again, a registrar issue and not really the fault of the XF company or any form of signal that the couldn't afford the domain renewal - that's just plain silly. Crap timing - yeah - but not any sort of sign about the finances of the XF company - just that their registrar let them down.

That's all. It happens.

 

[Kevin]

Rumors created by XenForo silence are then fed by the site going down and renewal expiring. Instead of renewing for a few years, they renew for one like they are not sure they will continue and have less than $34.99 confidence they'll be around two years. I think it is fair to be critical of not renewing for at least five years as a major PR and marketing mistake.

Actually the conversation was more about mobile interface issues going forward and then one of the "Leave XenForo Alone" crew just couldn't give it a break...hmm.