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

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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 I understand that some may find this nostalgic, but it looks incredibly outdated and is not visually appealing.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.
 
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smallwheels said:
It would make no sense at all to have a radily developed style update lying around that would be compatible with the existing codebase and could have been released three years ago and just not release it year after year because of not wanting to.
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Unless you wanted to make sure that all of the other features that are coming to XF2.4 also make it into XF3 so that folks who are running XF2 can continue running XF2, and also take advantage of all of these new features. Or maybe because it was decided that XF3 would include more than just a style. Or maybe it was, as you say, never finalized to begin with, which would mean Kier outright lied to us, which doesn't sound like something I'd expect to be true.

It would also make no sense that a style is finalized almost three years ago, and is still in development today, but here we are.
 
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mjda said:
Or maybe it was, as you say, never finalized to begin with, which would mean Kier outright lied to us
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Possibly a question of the definition of "finalized". Apart from that once more: Maybe the new style need certain technical changes and features that were and are not ready. So I would not accuse anyone of lying. The discussion does not make too much sense anyway as we don't have any information and the next release is 2.4 anyway. Before that hasn't happened 3.0 will clearly not be released and probably one should not expect more detailled information about it as well.
mjda said:
It would also make no sense that a style is finalized almost three years ago, and is still in development today, but here we are.
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Sure. Do you have a link where he said three years ago that the style for 3.0 was finalized?
 
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smallwheels said:
Possibly a question of the definition of "finalized". Apart from that once more: Maybe the new style need certain technical changes and features that were and are not ready. So I would not accuse anyone of lying. The discussion does not make too much sense anyway as we don't have any information and the next release is 2.4 anyway. Before that hasn't happened 3.0 will clearly not be released and probably one should not expect more detailled information about it as well.

Sure. Do you have a link where he said three years ago that the style for 3.0 was finalized?
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Well the question may not make sense to you, but it's a very logical question to me. I didn't pose the question to you, anyways, because you don't have the answer. Whether any of the devs answer is up to them. It's looking like I probably won't get an answer, and that's fine, but I knew I certainly wouldn't have gotten an answer to a question I never asked.

I'm not going to dig for where he said it again. It's there. You can find it. He said something along the lines of the style was finalized and being implemented, then they decided to remove the implementation and save it for a later release which would come shortly after 2.3. Clearly something changed. I'm just curious as to what changed. Again, I may not get an answer and that'll be fine too. I've waited over two years now. A few more won't hurt.
 
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Yeah, I think you are right. 3.0 has/had breaking template changes, that's why they split 2.4 and 3.0.

Still wonder what is going on. even though we recently had a small update (setbacks, still working on it) I wonder when it will be released.

And what happened to @Kier, he hasn't posted anything for a year now. Moved to greener pastures?
 
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duderuud said:
Yeah, I think you are right. 3.0 has/had breaking template changes, that's why they split 2.4 and 3.0.

Still wonder what is going on. even though we recently had a small update (setbacks, still working on it) I wonder when it will be released.

And what happened to @Kier, he hasn't posted anything for a year now. Moved to greener pastures?
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Think Kier is actually busy trying to get this all done.
I remember vB took over 18 months to move from version 4.25 to vB 5
 
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Real time updates to make threads act like a live chat and a better designed editor, proper video upload support and compression or this will just be a bulletin board with a coat of paint and a ever shrinking audience. 16 years and we have essentially the same software with the same old functions that can't match something like discord.
 
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