Style Maybe a "silly" question

Mike-1706

Mike-1706

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Hello to everybody and a nice weekend to you!

I'm having again a brainfart (sorry), but I wanna ask the Style Creators here.

I would like to offer the option to change the appearance of XenForo so that it looks like (or exactly ???)

1. phpBB
2. WoltLab

And before the ****storm potentially starts: 😇

I want to "make it easier" for users of these forums to access my forum.

The logic behind it isn't important right now!

Asked, explained and I still hope for helpful answers.:cool:

Mike
 
You're creating a problem that doesn't exist...
Fewer and fewer programmers are making themes, let alone the "madman" who starts making a theme to make an obsolete forum like phpbb or WoltLab look like xenforo...
 
Dear Sir!

1st: It was a question if possible (I don't see any problem with a simple and politely phrased question)
2nd: Xenforo should look like phpBB and WoltLab (I specifically wrote that the meaning should not be questioned).

Assuming your consent, I would like to categorize your answer as (does not answer the core question)!

:cool:
 
@Mike-1706 so, to answer your question... to do what you want, you have to pay a developer to prepare the two themes for Xenforo and pay him (I can't tell you the price, but I think it's at least $200 per theme) because, since it's completely useless, no one has ever done it. But it's doable.
 
Ricsca said:
@Mike-1706 so, to answer your question... to do what you want, you have to pay a developer to prepare the two themes for Xenforo and pay him (I can't tell you the price, but I think it's at least $200 per theme) because, since it's completely useless, no one has ever done it. But it's doable.
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Okay... That is an answers, thank you Risca. I probably agree with you! I'll have to see (around $200) if it's worth it to me. But it's great to read that with XenForo can do some amazing things. Amazing, of course, is always subjective!
 
The question isn't whether I want to use it! If it were up to me, I'd call it unnecessary.
I'm simply responding to user requests and trying to find a solution. The guest is king!

;)
 
all forums work the same way and xf is the simplest and most intuitive so I don't understand why you have to make an xf theme similar to other forum systems.
 
Hmm. I absolutely don't dispute that, and that's why I bought it back then (considering the price/performance ratio, it was certainly a good deal).
I see the different styles as a service I want to offer users who are coming from other forum software. I'm also convinced that these users will switch to the style sooner or later.

But not all of them. There are, after all, people who won't switch.

What remains? The "service"!

No more, but also no less!
 
Users participate in a forum for the content, not the style. All forums work the same way, and xf is simpler and more intuitive to use than others, so it's impossible for a user to stop participating in your forum because you've switched to xf.
As I've told you several times, you're creating a problem that doesn't exist.
If a user wants to complain about xf in your forum, it means they have time to waste and you should ignore them.

It's the Admin who chooses the graphics, not the user. When Facebook updates the graphics, it doesn't ask the user if it's okay...
 
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It's always a matter of perspective.

In principle, I agree with you,
but 1. I'm not Facebook, and 2. I listen to the users what they suggest.
I change or expand what I can (provided it's financially and technically feasible)!
Variety has never hurt anyone, and the users should feel comfortable.

It's like "Happy wife, happy life"

;)
 
Ricsca said:
When Facebook updates the graphics, it doesn't ask the user if it's okay...
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You can do things like that when you have no real competition. For forum admins it's not that easy. If you upset a large portion of your users they can simply leave and go someplace else (reddit, Facebook, other forums, etc).
 
mjda said:
You can do things like that when you have no real competition. For forum admins it's not that easy. If you upset a large portion of your users they can simply leave and go someplace else (reddit, Facebook, other forums, etc).
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If a user feels irritated because the xenforo forum doesn't have the same standard graphics as phpbb, they need a psychologist, and honestly, I don't think anyone should worry about their thoughts.

As I've said several times, xenforo, phpbb, and all other forums work the same way:

  • register
  • log in
  • open the category of interest
  • click on new thread

The only thing that differs slightly between one platform and another is the graphics, and a sane user wouldn't mind finding slight changes between xenforo and phpbb, especially since xenforo is the simplest and most intuitive forum out there, much more so than phpbb.

So, I repeat, we're talking about a problem that doesn't exist...
 
Mike-1706 said:
It's always a matter of perspective.

In principle, I agree with you,
but 1. I'm not Facebook, and 2. I listen to the users what they suggest.
I change or expand what I can (provided it's financially and technically feasible)!
Variety has never hurt anyone, and the users should feel comfortable.

It's like "Happy wife, happy life"

;)
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If your forum is this one, https://www.sysops-finest.org/forum/, you have countless things you should be concerned about rather than having a theme identical to phpbb.

The first two that come to mind are the pointlessness of renaming the main nodes to (English only) and (German only), but above all, having a forum (places where people post less and less these days because they're accustomed to the extreme simplicity of social media) with hundreds of subnodes, most of which have no posts, given that you have 179 users.
 
This can be interpreted in different ways.

The idea is simply to remind the user which language to write in. I deliberately chose two main categories because most sysops are unlikely to be from German-speaking regions, but with the intention of being able to better promote the hobby to interested people in German-speaking regions in the future, without potential language barriers (maybe and one day).

To the lower part:

Initially, I considered how I could meaningfully structure the approximately 800+ existing BBS programs. I knew from the outset that there would be little to no response, especially to the older programs from the early days. Nevertheless, I wanted to give these programs equal space and equal importance. The other option would have been to use prefixes. But even then, to always maintain the connection, I would have had to create 800+ prefixes, which would have become significantly more confusing. Hence the basic idea of having posts relating to a specific program in their own thread (if) and general questions, without a specific reference, in the general questions section.

And correct.... After cleaning up my user base, 179 Users remaining. Are so-called "one-day-flies" absolutely necessary?

Long story short, everything needs some kind of structure at the beginning (in my opinion - and maybe this is typically german?). Others don't always have to understand or agree with that. But from the start, I wanted a bag of mixed sweets, but with some structure! I'm not a fan of chaotic disarray.
 
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