Biggest Board Built On XF From Scratch
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Elizabeth
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Don't know if Floris' wetalknation counts as a BIG board but he's switched all his to one forum and it's a good size.
Wired
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Well I doubt you'll see ANY built from scratch sites with 25K+ posts yet, as the beta hasn't been out that long. Doesn't mean pre-existing sites haven't converted though. OTOH, any sufficiently big site would hopefully wait for a gold release and do plenty of testing beforehand.
DoctorWatsOn
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If you mean 'built from scratch' as only using xF and not converted from another software, that would be pushing it as xF has only been on sale for a couple of weeks.
This site has converted from vB to xF and has over 675k posts - We Talk Nation
ETA: I got interrupted by a phone call whilst posting and beaten to it by Elizabeth & Wired.
DoctorWatsOn
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Indeed, I know of 2 big sites (around 9-10 million posts) that have announced intentions to convert, but it'll be a while before they do - AV Forums & urban75.
TheBigK
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Yep, I understand that it's very difficult to build a 'big board' from scratch. My intention is to see how XF attracts traffic. I see pretty good listing for XF's official website on Google. However, XF had a start as IB filed a lawsuit against XF and most of the dissatisfied vB users moved to XF.
I'm also interested in knowing what sitemap solution can we use until an official solution / addon is made available for XF?
I'm also interested in knowing what sitemap solution can we use until an official solution / addon is made available for XF?
Peggy
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Yeah but XF had ALOT of members and traffic before the lawsuit was announced.
Wired
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Thanks to the Cult of Kier.
Peggy
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Jethro
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Once again, a sizable proportion of members here arrived with no idea of who Kier was
The software spoke for itself first and foremost.
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Anthony Parsons
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One of my sites has been released, brand new, for literally no longer than a week, and already it is over 500 posts. Members have already mentioned how enticing they feel the software is, to chat shorter messages, more instant responses, alerts and trophies. I actually was told by the ones registered that they hope I change my larger forum to XF sooner rather than later, as they much prefer this software.
The main points on limited feedback have been:
The main points on limited feedback have been:
- How fast it is. They are so sick of waiting for pages to load for durations that 4.x currently delivers, and that is with Shaun's mods from Digital Point, cacheing, etc.
- How chatty it is.
- How clean it is to just concentrate on the conversation and not all these extra pieces of information being around that distracts.
- How purely and utterly simple it is. Most of my members are not web oriented, ie. tech savvy, and they are just general everyday users. They like it that much more in such a short time, with no enticement from me.
jonsidneyb
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Technically I am a big board but barely. I am tempted to go for it soon.
Shaun Mason
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What is a "Big Board"?
At Tradition Sports Online (we also just switched domains), we have a fairly large number of posts.
We are using xF on our live boards and plan to continue doing so. Coming from vBulletin, it is as stable as 3, and far better than the test of vB 4 we did.
Our current statistics:
Discussions:35,553
Messages:364,250
Members:933
At Tradition Sports Online (we also just switched domains), we have a fairly large number of posts.
We are using xF on our live boards and plan to continue doing so. Coming from vBulletin, it is as stable as 3, and far better than the test of vB 4 we did.
Our current statistics:
Discussions:35,553
Messages:364,250
Members:933
---MAD---
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Nice style there. I think you have waaaay too many forums and sub forums though.
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