A Xenforo CMS would be nice, but you know what, I'm not sure that I agree that it HAS to have one to thrive or compete. A lot of people only need a good forum platform, for one thing, and two, those who also do need a cms can usually find other solutions, ways to use already existing CMS's alongside Xenforo. If you want a bridge and other integration but can't code it yourself, and can't afford to hire someone else to do it for you, maybe just do without? I see plenty of websites, some of them belonging to million dollar companies, that force you to register for their main site and again for their forums, there's no real integration there, but it doesn't stop most people from using those sites. And let's put the shoe on the other foot. If you were interested in a CMS solution that didn't have an integrated forum, or the bridges you were looking for to other forums, would you insist they develop their own integrated forum platform, claim they need to do so to compete, etc. You could, of course, but I'm not sure how many people would agree with you. So yeah, a XF CMS would be great, but I think it might be going a little overboard to make dire predictions for XF, as some of you have, if it doesn't rush to develop one. IPB, for example, already had one before you ever heard of XF, but did it stop you from buying a copy of XF? And yes, I know, you can argue that you'd buy even more copies of XF if it
did have one, etc., but then you're free to go get a copy of IPB if you really need it - or <shudder> vBulletin. For the record, though, my personal prediction is that there will be a XF CMS, but it might be a year or two off, so best exercise some patience.