Any news about Xenforo 3.0, can we expect modern forum?

[qnkov]

Hello. For half a year, I have been looking for a modern forum system to start an anime/manga site with various features. For example, a video system for watching movies/episodes, a way to add manga/anime as pages with information about them, topics with posters, etc. I saw that all of this is possible with Invision Community.

I waited to see version 5, but it turned out that the self-hosted platform is extremely expensive and has functionality limits. They also changed the way we acquire add-ons, significantly restricting options, and almost no themes exist for their latest version.

On the other hand, XenForo seems like a better alternative in terms of user base and price, but the forum and themes, in general, look like they’re from the early 2000s. I understand that some may find this nostalgic, but it looks incredibly outdated and is not visually appealing.

That’s why I’m wondering what exactly to expect with version 3.0. Can we anticipate a modern interface similar to Invision Community? I really don't want to go to invision as they may drop self-hosted in next version, as they aim for big comapanies, not common users now.

 

[Digital Doctor]

At least should be undertaken

Thread 'Allow nested replies in Q&A Threads'

Jun 18, 2020

Context:

XF 2.2 - Forum and thread types

Forums contain threads and threads contain posts. It's been the essential framework of forums on the Internet since the public migrated from usenet to the web. The structure is well known and well understood - though the origins of some of the terminology are lost in the mists of time. Who ever...

xenforo.com

The Q&A thread naturally lends itself to "post comments". Now, I never thought threaded conversations really worked well in the traditional forum setting -- I recall vBulletin's attempts at it. But, when you are talking about a Q&A where the A's are pieces of votable content itself. There is naturally going to be discussions around the A's.

The problem with the flat structure is what happens when someone replies to an Answer? That answer's reply gets its own Vote button, which doesn't make...

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[Gulf of Mexico]

I remember when vbulletin 2 introduced threaded, hybrid, and linear modes (I think I remember this correctly.)
But ultimately most people used linear as most of my users (and myself) didn't really want to spend the time to maintain the threaded view by carefully replying to a specific post and preferred reading the linear conversation as more natural/comfortable to read. Possibly I didn't get into the threaded view heavily enough -- I made it optional and left linear view default, and was waiting to see how many people chose it before embracing it.

Maybe reddit is on the right track, and maybe people now are used to reading things in smaller bits on cell phone screens so maybe this is the time vs. 20 years ago when people were used to reading more "flat" conversations. I still enjoy reading threads on xenforo more though than on reddit where it still feels like more of a "game" of small thought bits vs. a more natural conversation read. Maybe there is a new way to accomplish both.