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 I understand that some may find this nostalgic, but it looks incredibly outdated and is not visually appealing.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.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Text based content is categorized by a hierarchical structure (nodes in XenForo, newsgroups in Usenet), threads (topics) and posts (messages) within those containers.

And as soon as someone can show me the more modern way that is better I'll be very happy.

 

[sub_ubi]

Xenforo 3.0 is mostly a UI upgrade from 2.4, it will feature anime/manga styling with various features. For example, it will have a movie/show section for anime, a way to add pages about manga, and discussion topics for anime.

 

[top10myths]

Xenforo 3.0 is mostly a UI upgrade from 2.4, it will feature anime/manga styling with various features. For example, it will have a movie/show section for anime, a way to add pages about manga, and discussion topics for anime.

how do you know that? is there an official statement on that?

 

[cdub]

Better content discovery (unified customizable mixed content what's new) will help a ton if they ever implement it.

If they could do a what's new that's also a feed view that will show posts or threads with previews of their content would be neat too.

Could do an endless scroll of new content with text snippets which could help the phone users. Regular forum list view would always be accessible.

 

[cdub]

Feed view could be an endless scroll of content with snippets kind of like how article forums get shown in mobile:



Except it would show recent threads (preview of first post if it's new to you or preview of latest unread post if it isn't), new content from other add-ons with previews, new reviews, etc, new anything from any addon (customizable) in a feed. This would be great for mobile users used to how things work in social media. Regular forum list would still be accessible obviously.

 

[CedricV]

Infinite scroll would be nice, as an option.

 

[top10myths]

Infinite scroll would be nice, as an option.

it won't look good on new forum i guess. So an option would be ideal.

 

[Suzanne O]

Can you provide some context? I didn't say anything about social media.

Social media is full of scam ads, suggested pages and other unwanted crap you don't need.
A forum is where you have a private place to chat with people about proper things without the trolls, scammers, pedos asking for friend requests, porn bots trying to be gross with their posting, people impersonating others, fraudulent pages and stupid people.
You want social media go to facebook and put up with all that rubbish.
If you want a forum stop being such a fussy old fart that thinks forums are social media.

 

[qnkov]

By the way, it wouldn’t be a bad idea if the developers of XenForo, assuming they are reading this thread, connected with some popular add-on developers. I really liked this approach in the Invision forum. They partnered with two of their most popular application creators, and these developers consistently strive to provide high-quality, updated, and reliable applications.
I believe XenForo could do the same, or even attract these developers to create versions of their applications as add-ons for XenForo. Currently, the platform has quite a few add-ons, but connecting with the developers is difficult, and in some cases, you don’t even get a response. Moreover, many of their add-ons are not even translated into English.
There are many ways to modernize things, step by step and the fact that this thread become popular, means there are people like me, who thinks that Xenforo should step towards new era.

 

[AndrewSimm]

Social media is full of scam ads, suggested pages and other unwanted crap you don't need.
A forum is where you have a private place to chat with people about proper things without the trolls, scammers, pedos asking for friend requests, porn bots trying to be gross with their posting, people impersonating others, fraudulent pages and stupid people.
You want social media go to facebook and put up with all that rubbish.
If you want a forum stop being such a fussy old fart that thinks forums are social media.

I don't understand. I didn't suggest anything you wrote.

 

[Wing]

I don't understand. I didn't suggest anything you wrote.

Uh oh, you’re on her naughty list

 

[Renegade]

I don't understand. I didn't suggest anything you wrote.

This communication chain is too amusing! You are a bystander who got targeted for no reason.
If you'll follow posts of this account you will notice they will say the same things over an over and staunchly support the status quo.

 

[FTL]

This communication chain is too amusing! You are a bystander who got targeted for no reason.
If you'll follow posts of this account you will notice they will say the same things over an over and staunchly support the status quo.

Note that this is actually a real person, not a bot...

 

[Wildcat Media]

Regular forum list view would always be accessible.

Agreed--this is a must-have. After all, these are forums. At most, it should be one click away from any home page/portal/landing page.

Everything else is just gravy. And should be optional, at an admin's discretion.

 

[SoulReplicant]

I wrote up some thoughts a few years ago https://adjourn.audent.io/how-we-can-improve-the-forum-user-experience-41e4e036a27f/

I'm really surprised how this article didn't get any more traction. If you, forum owner/admin, really read it slowly and digesting what it says, it totally gets what are next steps in usability a content delivery & creation platform (as a forum) should be

This is what XF 3.0 should be if it doesn't want to be forgotten.

 

[lustbb]

Any Update 2.4?

 

[ENF]

Any Update 2.4?

This thread is about 3.0
Go here for 2.4.

 

[Digital Doctor]

XF isn't outdated.

Agreed.

XF isn’t outdated forum software.

Forum software itself is outdated.

The end results are quite similar.

Xenforo remains forum only software. If it doesn’t migrate to community software it’ll never reach its full potential

 

[Digital Doctor]

PayloadCMS

Is there a website you know of that is a forum using it ?

 

[alfaNova]

If it doesn’t migrate to community software it’ll never reach its full potential

This is good catch. I have been repeating the same matter everywhere. Forum software should crack their shells.