Ah that makes sense I didn't even consider the barrier to entry for a lot of people less tech savy. I've used nothing but VPS's for many years now.
NodeBB and Discourse are open source and still too good. I set up discourse to help my friend together and I and my friend learned how to use discourse, it was a lot easier and fun. Due to security advice, I can see that discourse installation is required to use docker. Sadly, XenForo doesn't support Docker. But it is already possible to set the docker with XenForo unofficial documentation.
Pretty sure the vast majority of people here just...don't.
Expensively. And without a third party addon marketplace! Or a self hosted licence
I know. Ergo the comment of without a marketplace
end of the day there's no definitive "better" - it's subjective and dependent individual needs, skills and budget.
Because different products exist for different people. It's not hard to understand.
UBB.threads still costs more. Over $700.
$700 twice a year?
I had never even heard of or come across this forum software, whose developers have been creating forums since 1997
A fast forum, but outdated, and even after XenForo I don't spend any more money on forum systems! I've had enough of wasting so much money
Worse UI and design, layout, system, useless... 139 US/Euro? It should be free anywayI had never even heard of or come across this forum software, whose developers have been creating forums since 1997
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How dare you call XF a waste of money.I had never even heard of or come across this forum software, whose developers have been creating forums since 1997
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Before 2.3 this was a really serious and powerful forum software that was worth every penny. Now however.... I don't share the same opinion, and I really hope I'm wrong but we'll see....How dare you call XF a waste of money.
I'm sorry but I don't understand you.....
I really hope the domain is problematic, I really hoped that VPS was problematic. I prefer XenForo to any other system, you could say that I even love this software, BUT, it's a shame that PHPbb handles SEO perfectly, and XenForo 2.3 does not, and still, if the search engine doesn't see your forum, then who will?
This could be done with a few innovations, maybe like no navigation, no logo, no widgets, no categories, no login or search links. All that stuff is so old hat. No forums or subforums. Maybe just everything clean and modern looking plenty of space. No breadcrumbs. Nice clean modern white background, and just to be more innovative nice modern font with white text against it.perhaps if they can just make it modern in a way nobody has thought of yet?
In what way?
Elementary. The same article published in Xenforo 2.3 and the same in PhPbb3, but on different domains. The one in PhPbb3 is indexed, but the one in XenForo 2.3 is not. Again, I really hope the domain is a problem, or VPS, not XenForo, but we'll see.
