iaresee
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Fractal Audio makes the world's best premp and effects processor. Primarially aimed at guitarist, but loved and used by bass, keyboard, cello and even hurdy gurdy players the world over.
We went to Xenforo maybe 6-7 years ago from vBulletin. The 1.x Xenforo was simpler than our vBulletin stack and just so much faster.
I did the 1.5 --> 2.1 upgrade this weekend. I had staged the upgrade in a VM to make sure I knew were the sharp edges were ahead of time and was surprised at how not hard it was. I really appreciated the addition of the
Very happy with the forced reset of our styles and add-ons too. We had gone too far towards trying to make Xenforo look like vB when we first converted all that time ago and maintaining that spaghetti code styling was a chore. Working with the latest default style has been very nice. It's only taken a few tweaks to get things looking comfortable but still fresh. Minimal user complaints thus far which was not the case when we went vB --> Xenforo.
Performance seems to have jumped up quite a bit with the 1.5 --> 2.1 migration. We did a bunch of upgrades to the stack (PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.3, Apache2, etc.) along with the forum software upgrade so it's hard to say conclusively that it's due to the Xenforo version updates, but I'm sure it's contributing to the overall snappiness. Even users are noticing.
Help in this forum is always top notch and super quick.
Very happy we left vBulletin behind oh so many years ago.
We went to Xenforo maybe 6-7 years ago from vBulletin. The 1.x Xenforo was simpler than our vBulletin stack and just so much faster.
I did the 1.5 --> 2.1 upgrade this weekend. I had staged the upgrade in a VM to make sure I knew were the sharp edges were ahead of time and was surprised at how not hard it was. I really appreciated the addition of the
cmd.php file -- being able to run upgrades from a tmux session on the server meant I no babysitting to keep things alive and I could run it late at night, still get some sleep.Very happy with the forced reset of our styles and add-ons too. We had gone too far towards trying to make Xenforo look like vB when we first converted all that time ago and maintaining that spaghetti code styling was a chore. Working with the latest default style has been very nice. It's only taken a few tweaks to get things looking comfortable but still fresh. Minimal user complaints thus far which was not the case when we went vB --> Xenforo.
Performance seems to have jumped up quite a bit with the 1.5 --> 2.1 migration. We did a bunch of upgrades to the stack (PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.3, Apache2, etc.) along with the forum software upgrade so it's hard to say conclusively that it's due to the Xenforo version updates, but I'm sure it's contributing to the overall snappiness. Even users are noticing.
Help in this forum is always top notch and super quick.
Very happy we left vBulletin behind oh so many years ago.
