I would like to give my warm congratulations to Kier&Mike for coming up with such a fantastic looking&feeling product. Let me refer to the following remarks:
Is it just me or does this feel way better than vB4 already?
Just think to yourself: What was my first impression when I saw the GOLD release of vB4 made by what, 20 developers?
vs .. what is my first impression when I see the first build of the first version of this xenforo alpha made by 2 developers?
Exactly my view. And I bet of many, many others. After seeing what you guys came up with I thought... what a pity that so many (
hundreds according to themselves) ex-vBulletin customers already swapped to Invision. I never liked Invision and mainly because -in my eyes- the userinterface of that product is not good. Even vB4's interface is better (because it is based on vB3's interface), although it looks terribly unpolished/amateurish in the Internet Brands' produced version. The remarkable disappointingly quality of the vB4 userinterface (compared to the excellent solid vB3), is one of the main (and many) reasons why my vB4 packages still lives on my local hard disk. Zipped that is.
The way the userinterface of XenForo impresses me is what I expected vB4 would offer. Unfortunately Internet Brands can not live up to almost any of my expectations. And that of many, many others. But I am telling nothing new... as usual. ;-)
You see, I am still not over everything InternetBrands did to vBulletin. It is really amazing, but after a few hours here on XenForo I am truly
enjoying using a forum-product again! This feeling I never had the pleasure to experience using the hugely disappointingly vB4.
I still am unable to use my paid for & still zipped vB4, because of the simple fact that I will not touch this in any way on our carefully buildup platform (we produce one the most succesfull -vB3.8 powered- websites in The Netherlands: 5 million hits p/months, which is a lot for such a small country). However, I do need integrated Blogs badly and a supporting CMS next year. I wonder, is this widely respected 2-man team capable of producing a comprehensive suite like Invision and vBulletin? I am talking about the amount of man/womanpower, not the quality/talent of Kier&Mike obviously. One only has to look and use this new piece of software to see what talent is. To see the opposite, people can go
here.
Hopefully there are plans to produce an integrated Blog and CMS system, because then I am sold. Amazingly isn't it, one get's this feeling after just spending a few hours overhere. I spend 8 months waiting for Internet Brands to get their appalling act together and still much of it over there keeps oozing 'remarkably unconvincing' all over the place.
I am
very curious to see what Kier & Mike have up their sleeves: this first version is truly impressive! I wish you guys all the best: you deserve it.
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