If XenForo's finished, what's next?

[Mr Lucky]

IPS5 is very modern.

In what way is it modern?

 

[MapleOne]

I used IPS on a very large forum for years moving from Ikonboard and I much prefer Xenforo.

The IPS licensing is just stupid, I think they are more gearing to large corporations than smaller forums. I find that with a few forum softwares and by comparison even the cloud version of Xenforo is still reasonably priced.

 

[MySiteGuy]

This is all quite disappointing for me considering I only recently purchased XenForo to create a forum. I quite like the software so far but I feel a lot of third party addon developers seem to have abandoned it. Also there is very little help or information around to fix things. A lot of the older tips, trips and fixes around customisation only work for earlier versions of XenForo.

Check out most of their competition, both paid and free, where the add-on options range between none to virtually none.

The closest is Discourse, but unfortunately many of the good plugins require you to host with them. Some are even worse, requiring the pro, business or enterprise levels. There are about 300 total plugins, and Discourse's team maintains a list of all "known to currently work" plugins, which is about 105.

 

[MapleOne]

@MySiteGuy helped me port to Xenforo

That was another nice feature to have someone knowledgeable able to port older software into Xenforo