Demo/Test xenForo?

[DavidH]

Hi guys,

Recently I've purchased vBulletin 4.0 (CMS & Blog) after using vB v3 a few years back. I'm extremely disappointed with the software, it's unnecessarily complicated for my moderators and the permissions system is really long overdue a revamp.

I've used SMF and had no real issues with it (besides a few members having random BBCode problems) and have started thinking that I should be migrating back to it.

Now, I saw a board using this software and I really love some of the inbuilt features and it seems like a fresher look at forum software to the end user.

Is there any way to have a demo? (I understand the piracy risks with that) or just a sample website hosted somewhere so I can look at the admin side? Permissions etc would be great or simply just a few screenshots so I know what I'd be looking at before purchasing.

Edit - Also, has anyone tested this software with Lighttpd? Would I need to add any regex in my configuration for the nice URLs?

 

[DroidHost]

I agree We need a demo

 

[Vincent]

There are already quite a few topics about this:

Here are 3 of them:
- http://xenforo.com/community/threads/demo.9970/
- http://xenforo.com/community/threads/admin-demo.9609
- http://xenforo.com/community/threads/test-forum.8725/

The answer is "no, not yet". With the stable release there might be one but we cannot promise

 

[Paul B]

There may be an online demo of the ACP available in the future, but not until after the software is released as a stable version.

In the meantime, here are some images of the ACP as it was in Beta 1: http://www.fractalizer.ru/frpost_554/xenforo-1-0-beta-admin-control-panel-in-pictures/

 

[DavidH]

Thanks Brogan, that's helpful - has a lot changed?

I can see the end user perspective (just by browsing this forum) and it looks great, from those screenshots the admin panel seems quite intuitive too.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks Brogan, that's helpful - has a lot changed?

Generally the structure and content is the same, there are a few new features though.
You can read about them in the various release announcements: http://xenforo.com/community/forums/announcements/

 

[36degrees]

It's also worth taking a look at the threads in the 'Have You Seen' forum if you haven't already - a lot of them contain videos of some of the neater features of xenForo. Style editing and moderation / spam tools particularly!

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/

Ollie

 

[DavidH]

Thanks, that's pretty nice - so far so good!

Anyone have an idea about lighttpd though?

 

[Paul B]

I just did a quick search for lighttpd and a few posts came up.
You could try reading a few of those, you might find your answer

http://xenforo.com/community/search/578041/?q=Lighttpd&t=post&o=date

This guy seems happy with it: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-and-vps.8079/#post-111991

 

[36degrees]

Running fine with me using lighttpd to serve static files, with proxying to Apache handling all the PHP. Haven't personally tried serving everything with lighty.

Ollie

 

[Digital Doctor]

Recently I've purchased vBulletin 4.0 (CMS & Blog) after using vB v3 a few years back. I'm extremely disappointed with the software, it's unnecessarily complicated for my moderators and the permissions system is really long overdue a revamp.

I like you already.
Nevermind the past.
Welcome to the Future.

 

[Floris]

XenFans offers full access admin demos - feel free to contact us to request yours.

 

[DavidH]

I'd just like to thank Floris for setting up an admin test demo, it was really helpful to see how things work for moderators. Loving the easy access moderation tools

 

[Digital Doctor]

Why doesn't someone make a narrated video showing some of the Admin niceness ?