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anybody could tell me ? should buy Xen or Vbu ?
One developer or add-on doesn't represent the entire market.Beware of independent add-ons that have extremely poor documentation! This might be fine if you are a programming expert, otherwise, you will run into many brick walls getting them activated. Caveat Emptor! Otherwise, it's like buying a new car without a test drive and getting one-word answers when there is a problem. XenForo is great, 3rd party add-ons, not so much!
One developer or add-on doesn't represent the entire market.
+1.Unless he heads to Andy Bs site and gets a **** load for $35.
Changed from vb4 and never looked back.
Just everything is better. Hardly any major errors and the add-ons, esp from Andy are top notch.
@Snog
There are certainly plenty of others, but I don't have much personal experience with them. I know that ThemeHouse an DragonByte are among them.@ThemeHouse has some good add-ons, as well.
Be prepared to spend a ton of money on several add-ons with XenForo, plus annual fee for XF license. XF is very basic in the features, no calendar, no blogs, no articles, no comments system for posts.anybody could tell me ? should buy Xen or Vbu ?
The annual renewal is not mandatory.plus annual fee for XF license
But necessary to make sure your forum won't break when browsers, servers get updated, for example. Or if you want bugs fixed.The annual renewal is not mandatory.
You didn't mention that the life time license is for the current version which is vBulletin 5. If/when vBulletin 6 arrives you'll have to pay an upgrade fee which is currently only $40 less than the full price. That upgrade fee equates to around 4 years of the XenForo annual renewal (which is optional). Also the vBulletin purchase only includes 1 month of ticket support, after that you would have to pay a significant monthly amount for this. XenForo includes 1 year of ticket support with the initial license and with an annual renewal.With vB you have many features included with life time license
Indeed XenForo doesn't have these and not everyone needs them anyway. It doesn't make is "very basic in features", it is quite rich in the features that it does provide for forum software which is what it is. Those features are essentially for a CMS (except post comments which not everyone likes anyway).XF is very basic in the features, no calendar, no blogs, no articles, no comments system for posts.
Support for XF is pretty good. I tremendous trying to get support for VB and it took quite awhile to get an answer from VB. Our users aren't really interested in a calendar or a blog. We're happy with XF.You didn't mention that the life time license is for the current version which is vBulletin 5. If/when vBulletin 6 arrives you'll have to pay an upgrade fee which is currently only $40 less than the full price. That upgrade fee equates to around 4 years of the XenForo annual renewal (which is optional). Also the vBulletin purchase only includes 1 month of ticket support, after that you would have to pay a significant monthly amount for this. XenForo includes 1 year of ticket support with the initial license and with an annual renewal.
Indeed XenForo doesn't have these and not everyone needs them anyway. It doesn't make is "very basic in features", it is quite rich in the features that it does provide for forum software which is what it is. Those features are essentially for a CMS (except post comments which not everyone likes anyway).
As for add-ons, it really depends on what is needed for a website. Some sites require only a few add-ons or none at all, not everyone needs lots of extras and a significant financial layout. Each admin needs to make that judgement for themselves.
Another forum in a similar topic to mine moved from Xenforo to a Drupal based system recently and have gutted the forum membership in the process.
I think Xenforo also has a lot of disadvantages. All of these forums except Xenforo lack how many posts a member has during their avatar and when the members registered. To see it, you have to move your mouse over the profile. It's very bad.
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