I'm creating a forum…

[Marcos88]

Hello, good afternoon
I'm creating a forum in phpBB format... and I came across this Xenforo platform, which is a paid service...
And the truth is that it has a lot of options, very similar to Phpbb, or at least that's what it seems to me…
I'm fairly new to this…
And I'd like to know what options Xenforo has that are better than Phpbb.

Greetings and thank you

 

[Ricsca]

Objectively, xenforo is much better than phpbb.
If you want, you can start with phpbb and then migrate to xenforo later if your community is working and has members.

 

[Rene_V]

And I'd like to know what options Xenforo has that are better than Phpbb.

You can give the free demo a try and see for yourself what options XenForo has that are better than phpBB.

Create a XenForo demo

xenforo.com

 

[Marcos88]

Thank you very much for the reply. I've been using phpBB for about 25 years; I had several amateur forums... back then, in my circle of friends, it was like TikTok is today, it was all the rage...
It's been about 15 years since I stopped and disconnected from the subject... and now I'd like to return...
I started by buying a server and installing phpBB, and I'm still going through it to refresh my memory, until I came across xenforo, which caught my attention… I was looking for a plugin to add a portal to the forum and I found you…
Well, the reality is that 25 years ago, spending $200 on a forum wasn't feasible... but now I can afford it, obviously without telling my wife...
I tried the demo version of Xenforo and it's pretty good. From what little I saw, it seemed similar to phpBB... I haven't looked much yet, I'm taking it slow when I can...
I thought about starting with phpBB and then switching to xenforo, but then I considered the data migration issue and the possibility of having to handle several steps…
I can understand that xenforo's visibility is much better than phpBB's, and its security too, but I don't know…
I don't want to have to switch later, so I'm investigating. I've already located the Spanish Xenforum, but I tried to register and I can't because I don't have an official license… only people who have a Xenforum account can register (I think)…
And I registered here with you to see if I can finish the conversation and acquire the license

Thank you so much for the replies, I'll stick around and continue investigating.


By the way, I tried to change the language to Spanish and I can't seem to find a way to do it…
I'd like to be able to see it in my own language without Google Translate, which is often right and sometimes wrong…

Good night

 

[ES Dev Team]

We moved from phpbb and the search sucks ( we ended up using google as the primary search function ) compared to phpbb but everything else is way better.

It's higher quality software and it also runs faster.

The process of moving a 2 decades old board wasn't too bad either. Better than expected.

Most importantly, we stopped a decline in membership by updating from a very outdated platform to one that is a lot newer and more familiar to today's users

 

[Ricsca]

@ES Dev Team i like seeing what the old forums looked like on archive.org...
I'd like to ask you why you changed the forum directory from /forums to /sphere, thus losing indexing. And how the home page is a static image that you have to click to go to the forum, which is causing you to lose further access...