Im looking to switch from vBulletin but I have a few questions

[Lone Wolf]

Hi.

First of all, let me say that I've only been playing about with the XenForo demo for an hour or so but I'm already very impressed. I have a few questions to ask to see if it's worth my while switching over from vbulletin whom I've been with for over half a decade.

1) How easy is it to port over threads and users from a vBulletin forum to XF?

2) There appears to be a lot of control over users, usergroups and their permissions. One thing I'd like to be able to do is to give different user groups different coloured backgrounds. For example on XF the user info area background is two shades of blue. Is it possible to give staff usergroups, member usergroups and VIP usergroups different colours for their user info areas?

If it isn't possible, how hard would it be to make a mod/hack that does this?

3) We currently have a forum where users can only see and reply to their OWN threads. This is used as a staff helpdesk area where staff can help and respond to individual users without others being able to read the threads. On VB this was achieved by setting the 'can see others threads' permission to 'no' but I dont see a similar option on XF. Have I missed it or is it coming?

4) VB has been around for a long time and has lots of bridges with Joomla/Wordpress. Does anything similar exist for XF yet and if it does. Is there a bridge that would allow me to use the XF login details across both my webpages and the forums. I would like to make certain webpages only available based on usergroup permissions.

5) Would I need a hack to seperate sticky threads or is there a built-in option that allows me to do it?

I'd normally use Google to find the answers myself but with XF being so fresh there's not a lot out there yet.

Thanks in advance for your help and I hope this software goes from strength to strength.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Does XF count threads per user as a stat? Because wouldnt you need that variable to ceate an add-on like that?

 

[Paul B]

That particular stat' isn't exposed but it would be fairly easy to check the xf_thread table and use the user_id field.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Thanks Brogan

 

[thumped]

Joomla+vB4 via jfusion doesnt work because vB4 is horrid.

really? someone should have told my joomla + vb4 via jfusion site.

 

[Lone Wolf]

One thing I dont understand about XF is the decision to put the post # and date/time posted at the bottom of the post instead of at the top.

There's no point seeing when the post was made AFTER reading the post and sometimes (on longer posts) you have to scroll down to the end of the post to see when it was posted before you start reading it.

Was this done just to be different to the likes of VB/IPB and how easy is it to change it back?

 

[Paul B]

It would be fairly simple to change it with a template edit.

 

[Forsaken]

One thing I dont understand about XF is the decision to put the post # and date/time posted at the bottom of the post instead of at the top.

There's no point seeing when the post was made AFTER reading the post and sometimes (on longer posts) you have to scroll down to the end of the post to see when it was posted before you start reading it.

Was this done just to be different to the likes of VB/IPB and how easy is it to change it back?

I find I pay more attention when it is after the content as I usually skip right to the content in the first place. Harder to do so when its not before the content .

 

[Digital Doctor]

really? someone should have told my joomla + vb4 via jfusion site.

 

[Lone Wolf]

I just purchased my XenForo license

 

[Paul B]

Welcome aboard

 

[Lone Wolf]

Thanks Brogan. We have vbSEO on our current vBulletin installion. When we import our vb info into xf what happens to these urls? Do they change to the xf format or do they stay the same so as not to break existing external and internal url links?

 

[Paul B]

There is an add-on for vBSEO URLs here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirects-for-vbseod-urls.5098/

Here are a couple of links which may prove useful too:
http://xenforo.com/help/importing/
http://xenforo.com/help/import-redirection/

 

[Fufu]

a few questions... lmfao
sorry,I laugh every time I see this thread pop-up in the "What's New" alert.
it is a good laugh. trust me.

hope to see you in the xenForo community soon.
there are lots of users here who love to help.
hope you can contribute too and become a xenForo family member.

 

[Lone Wolf]

a few questions... lmfao
sorry,I laugh every time I see this thread pop-up in the "What's New" alert.
it is a good laugh. trust me.

hope to see you in the xenForo community soon.
there are lots of users here who love to help.
hope you can contribute too and become a xenForo family member.

I do like my questions and I've already joined the XF community, bought my license yesterday