It´s time for some official statement what is going on behind xenforo

[mrGTB]

should anything go wrong is to return to PHPBB or SMF or MYBB.

Good luck with that.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Good luck with that.

Thanks. I will continue supporting Xenforo because it is the choice I made regardless of the risks presented to me.

Should that day have to end because Kier him self said that Xenforo is going down, then I will convert my boards to another software, its not that hard.

 

[Robbo]

Errr if it went down.. fork?

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Errr if it went down.. fork?

I see your fork and raise you a spoon that may or may not be an illusion of the mind.

 

[Naatan]

Errr if it went down.. fork?

XF is not open source.

 

[Alien]

I see your fork and raise you a spoon that may or may not be an illusion of the mind.

 

[craigiri]

Thanks. I will continue supporting Xenforo because it is the choice I made regardless of the risks presented to me.

Should that day have to end because Kier him self said that Xenforo is going down, then I will convert my boards to another software, its not that hard.

Hey Dark, a quick look at your Avatar looks like the guy is peeing from a big....oh, well, I have an imagination.....no role playing here.


Just to make some folks happy - I used an older forum package for about 4-5 years with virtually NO updates...and ran a very large community on it.

While I am in agreement that communication is lacking here, I don't think folks are going to be left high and dry. Plenty of folks will want the XF business (if anything happens), and there will be paths for migration.

And, as I said, most communities can go for YEARS without updates....so, realistically, the idea that XF is going to fall apart without quarterly updates seems silly. I often stay with older linux/php/mysql versions for many years with no ill effect.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Oops posted full-size by accident. Here you go! I can see what you see, now I have to change my avatar D:

 

[Robbo]

XF is not open source.

But if it went under would this not make it legal to fork it?

 

[mrGTB]

What's the real point of this? People are only interested in using XenForo if Kier and Mike are developing it. Anyway, if they lost chances are IB would own it, even if they didn't XenForo is not Open Source.

 

[Robbo]

Come to think of it. Yeah I wouldn't want to have to deal with this community.

 

[mrGTB]

The fact is, while MRGTB does post some right bollocks at times

Thanks, Mark.

 

[Naatan]

But if it went under would this not make it legal to fork it?

No it would not, only them open-sourcing it would make it legal to fork it.

 

[Kevin]

Hey Dark, a quick look at your Avatar looks like the guy is peeing from a big....oh, well, I have an imagination.....no role playing here.

Aaaarrrggghh! What has been seen now cannot be unseen!

 

[Robbo]

No it would not, only them open-sourcing it would make it legal to fork it.

But no legal action could be taken against you right? Worst case scenario we do what KAM did and make our own

 

[The Dark Wizard]

And yet again someone gets jumped on for posting a contrary opinion.

The fact is, while MRGTB does post some right bollocks at times, he is absolutely spot on with that comment.

It is not negativity, it is realism. "Being positive" doesn't pay the bills.

MTGTB should have been aware of the risks and consequences of using xenforo. I was and still am.

Lets play a game of Russian Roulette.

If you win, you get the best forum experiance out there.

If you lose, you get nothing. It was explained to you before you entered the door.

Besides dead people don't get to complain that they are dead.

 

[Robbo]

I hate Russian Roulette, I always lose

 

[Naatan]

But no legal action could be taken against you right? Worst case scenario we do what KAM did and make our own

Of course they could take legal action, they probably wouldn't unless you grow big enough though.

I'm in no way, shape or form advocating forking - just explaining the implications.

 

[mrGTB]

It is not negativity, it is realism. "Being positive" doesn't pay the bills.

That's all I was being, realistic about things. IB have been involved in loads of court cases, they have multiple ones ongoing at times. The legal team they use no doubt will be past masters and manipulating things with the legal system and that does not suit XenForo, who unlike IB doesn't have a bottomless money pit to keep dipping into.

I was just being realistic, not negative.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

MTGTB should have been aware of the risks and consequences of using xenforo. I was and still am.

Lets play a game of Russian Roulette.

If you win, you get the best forum experiance out there.

If you lose, you get nothing. It was explained to you before you entered the door.

Besides dead people don't get to complain that they are dead.

Let me quote my self so everyone can see it.