TNCclubman
Well-known member
Quick poll to see if you want an old school (post/reply) forum or if you want a complete system like facebook/twitter out of xenforo.
I want a social media experience for my members. I feel the old school forum is an antiquated technology that even my old school members find boring. We need to get with the times or our members will just keep spending 90% of their online time on FB and twitter. Its no longer just go on a site and discuss things, it creating friendships and tracking what people do in a community.
FB is killing my site.. My members seem to be making more and more posts along the lines of "new Pics on my fb page check it out here www.fbblablabla If we cant compete with it we will get taken down by it.. I was once able to use Myspace to plug my site and it worked great, but facebook is different. I still use it to push the content on my canine forums but i cant compete with the hundreds of other members that are doing just the opposite..
FB is killing my site.. My members seem to be making more and more posts along the lines of "new Pics on my fb page check it out here www.fbblablabla If we cant compete with it we will get taken down by it.. I was once able to use Myspace to plug my site and it worked great, but facebook is different. I still use it to push the content on my canine forums but i cant compete with the hundreds of other members that are doing just the opposite..
And how would you do that?
I have access to download vB4.0 but still havent. my vB 3.8 is great. Plus my custom theme, social feeds, and photo tagging cost me too much to just dump for 4.0 stripped down. No thanks. I think Im done with vB... I'll ride out my vB 3.8 heavily customized until xenforo is ready...
I'm looking for forum software - I'm not trying to be facebook, and I don't need all the extra junk that is extraneous to an actual forum. I don't need a CMS that just regurgitates what's already on my forum, I don't need to host 8,000 albums of crap for my members. I need well coded forum software. If I wanted a social network forum I'd upgrade my vb licenses...
Managment, maybe. Quality? No. Bad compression on the images, and try to back the pics up easily w/o a 3rd party tool.Well is this necessarily a bad thing? Facebook has a superior photo management system, and they probably always will - you can use this knowledge to your advantage, it's not the photos you are interested in, but the discussion of the photos. This is how third party APIs become important for forums!
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