Choose vBulletin or Xenforo: popularity

Hi, I am making my decision to purchase a forum software for my new site. I don't care much about functionality but instead I want to make sure my site has a best forum software in the near future.

Xenforo is growing, what is its usage compare to vBulletin now? marketshare? Is is going to beat vBulletin in the near future?

Do you have estimation how many new license purchases Xenforo have each day? and vBulletin? (now & future)

Thank you for reading my post.
 
Now that's a suggestion for the developers... or any add-on developers out there. Regardless... If you've got a user wreaking havoc, then what are they doing on your forum in the first place? If they're spamming, just spam clean them. If they're posting messages that break your community guidelines, then why aren't your moderators on the case? It's far better to let your moderators vet a suspect user's posts than to go deleting them indiscriminately. You can achieve this within the Database if you must, by setting the message state of the user's posts to "deleted".
so you are suggesting me to get tons of moderators to full fill the need of that essential feature?
there is no such addon in xenforo now. hope some one can make it even as paid addon. i will buy
but it's really essential and should come as standard.

The likes system isn't all that useful if a minority of users want to farm likes from each other. It will become fairly obvious, fairly quickly (to your moderators and your members), if people are attempting to rack-up likes in a short space of time. If you really want to, you can limit likes per day with an add-on, or if you really want a Reputation System that mimics vBulletin's one, you can install one. I'd feel though, that implementing such a reputation system will only encourage the elitism and clique-mentality that you are trying to avoid.
you are totally missing my point and there is no addon which limits likes per day for a person. i tried that addon and contact the developer but its only for limit likes from total group per day. actually we should have something like limits likes one person can give to the other per day. that will minimize the abuse.
And we need some mod find where they have given likes and to delete abused likes
 
so you are suggesting me to get tons of moderators to full fill the need of that essential feature?
there is no such addon in xenforo now. hope some one can make it even as paid addon. i will buy
but it's really essential and should come as standard.
vB was one of only a few forum software that I have ever witnessed proving inline moderation/selection tools for searches. It would cause problems because of zonal moderation permissions. If Moderator A only has access to moderate forums A, B an C, but not D, and his/her search pulls up results in forum D, how will the moderator be able to select those threads and perform a certain Moderation action if he or she has no permission to do so? This feature would essentially be limited to Global/Super Moderators.


you are totally missing my point and there is no addon which limits likes per day for a person. i tried that addon and contact the developer but its only for limit likes from total group per day. actually we should have something like limits likes one person can give to the other per day. that will minimize the abuse.
And we need some mod find where they have given likes and to delete abused likes
I understand your point, but I think you're missing mine. You're trying to stop the likes system from turning into a popularity contest, when that's not what the likes system is intended for. So naturally, you ask why there isn't a reputation system, which would turn your forum into a popularity contest. I've had my forum for well over two years, and I had a vB powered community long before that. The reputation system was far more problematic, with "buddy-repping" and "revenge-repping", and those who cared not about reputation never getting any.

If you really want a way to limit likes, it wouldn't be hard as an add-on, but likes are supposed to be an implied way to agree or acknowledge someone's contribution to a forum - such a system reduces the need for pointless/spam posts like "yea i agree" - posts that really don't contribute anything and just bump up the user's post count, which is far more important to some people in some communities.

You won't need a lot of moderators, but you should have enough to cope with the size of your community. My community has 680,000 posts and nearly 4,000 members, with over a thousand messages a day. I have 6 fellow administrators, 7 Super Moderators and 3 Junior Moderators. I then have one or two small groups of specialist-subject moderators, who supervise their relevant sections. If you hope to control a bigger forum with less manpower, I really do wish you the best of luck! You really can't be a one-man show - in order to maintain a quality forum that people will want to come back to, you need to give it some human attention.

If you really feel you want these features, there are add-on developers that'd be happy to make them for you. Inline search moderation is already possible to some extent, because the "What's New?" feature allows you to select threads for moderation.
 
Hi, I am making my decision to purchase a forum software for my new site. I don't care much about functionality but instead I want to make sure my site has a best forum software in the near future.

Xenforo is growing, what is its usage compare to vBulletin now? marketshare? Is is going to beat vBulletin in the near future?

Do you have estimation how many new license purchases Xenforo have each day? and vBulletin? (now & future)

Thank you for reading my post.
even i m going through this confusion..
 
I have got one of each. Both are small forums but are doing the job. People are signing up on both of mine. But i don't let the trolls in or the spammers in.
An idea is to do the same. Use both. Have two different forums and see which one is more popular.
 
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