---MAD---
Well-known member
Hi there,
One big factor that will sway people towards (or even away from) XF will be the amount of useful add-ons available that people require to run their forums efficiently especially if they are migrating from other software where they already have these add-ons.
I was wondering if XF plan (obviously not in the immediate future) to run community projects to get highly requested add-ons to be created by the community and monitored officially by XF staff?
I believe IPB do this and it appears to be very successful. This can at least help fill the gaps where popular addons are needed but require a lot of time for single devs to pursue themselves and would off course distract the XF staff too much from working on the forums, to do themselves. I can see this being especially useful for bridge addons (with different CMSs/blogs/chat/e-commerce) and maybe even a way to get a script produced to connect multiple XF communities.
These products would obviously be free for licensed customers and help the community collaborate together rather than set up to create an income.
Thoughts?
One big factor that will sway people towards (or even away from) XF will be the amount of useful add-ons available that people require to run their forums efficiently especially if they are migrating from other software where they already have these add-ons.
I was wondering if XF plan (obviously not in the immediate future) to run community projects to get highly requested add-ons to be created by the community and monitored officially by XF staff?
I believe IPB do this and it appears to be very successful. This can at least help fill the gaps where popular addons are needed but require a lot of time for single devs to pursue themselves and would off course distract the XF staff too much from working on the forums, to do themselves. I can see this being especially useful for bridge addons (with different CMSs/blogs/chat/e-commerce) and maybe even a way to get a script produced to connect multiple XF communities.
These products would obviously be free for licensed customers and help the community collaborate together rather than set up to create an income.
Thoughts?