Second hand license
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CedricV
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We had a few on Administrata but they sold out quickly as you already know. I may know someone that still has one. I’ll give him a PM.
Opus X
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there was a guy that was moving a lot of his xenforo sites over to invision that might have some for sale.
found the guy and the site he mentioned it.
found the guy and the site he mentioned it.
xenForo Licenses For Sale
I have several xenforo licenses for sale. Most have 6+ months of support and upgrades left. Most have 1 or more of the official addons included. Here is what I have and prices. Expires September 29Th 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $265. Price $185. Expires September 8TH 2025. Forum...
www.forum-forum.com
Dragapult
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It’s not nonsense. It works better for them and that’s fine. Everyone has their reasons. This is why multiple products exist.I wrote to him a few days ago but he has nothing...
Moving from xf to inision is a nonsense thing...
I would like to do the opposite
Opus X
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it is something i still am wanting to do.
but i am not the only one with a say in it now.
Ricsca
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@Dragapult unless you have a community with a lot of active users where it makes sense to do live broadcasts, I don't see anything that can justify $499 for the purchase and $199 for the license renewal.
I also find the forum structure more dispersive for users who are not used to using forums but I understand that this can be a problem for me since I have been using them for more than 20 years.
I have a very little active forum with Invision Community Suite and it makes no sense to spend $499 dollars to switch to Invision Community Classic.
In fact, if I find a second-hand xf license I will migrate it to xenforo.
I also find the forum structure more dispersive for users who are not used to using forums but I understand that this can be a problem for me since I have been using them for more than 20 years.
I have a very little active forum with Invision Community Suite and it makes no sense to spend $499 dollars to switch to Invision Community Classic.
In fact, if I find a second-hand xf license I will migrate it to xenforo.
Arantor
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The downside is that there isn't currently a good comparative feature to Invision Community's Pages feature in XF. You can kinda get some of the way there with XFRM and some of the way there with article topics but you're otherwise looking at community addons, assuming that non-forum content is important to exist alongside the forum content to attract visitors.
Arantor
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What if you need a lot of different kinds of articles? Or, for that matter, anything else that is structured data in the Invision Pages Database method.
Dragapult
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YOU can't. Others can. Simple as that. Some people are going to like Invision. Some will like XenForo. Others will go to UBB.threads or vBulletin. And that's fine. Someone isn't wrong or insane because they use something other than what you use.
Suzanne O
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@Dragapult it looks like @Ricsca wants to move because of the total expense of invision. They're expensive.
I suggest that he uses the cloud until he obtains his secondhand license.
Ricsca
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I have never called anyone crazy!
I have had 1 forum with 739,290 posts open with vb for almost 20 years that I migrated to invision 3 years ago and 1 forum for about 10 years with 151,707 posts that was previously with a custom script and about 2 years ago I migrated to xenforo.
Invision of relevant novelties compared to xenforo only has live posts while for the rest it is on the same level... for this reason in my opinion, spending 499 dollars for the license and 199 dollars for the annual renewal does not make sense.
Then everyone decides to throw away their money as they see fit...
Imagine that I want to migrate my largest forum from invision to xenforo and for this I am looking for a second-hand license because I also consider 195 dollars for xenforo too many given the use of forums in 2024 and it is not a question of whether one can or cannot spend but simply of not wasting money...
I have had 1 forum with 739,290 posts open with vb for almost 20 years that I migrated to invision 3 years ago and 1 forum for about 10 years with 151,707 posts that was previously with a custom script and about 2 years ago I migrated to xenforo.
Invision of relevant novelties compared to xenforo only has live posts while for the rest it is on the same level... for this reason in my opinion, spending 499 dollars for the license and 199 dollars for the annual renewal does not make sense.
Then everyone decides to throw away their money as they see fit...
Imagine that I want to migrate my largest forum from invision to xenforo and for this I am looking for a second-hand license because I also consider 195 dollars for xenforo too many given the use of forums in 2024 and it is not a question of whether one can or cannot spend but simply of not wasting money...
Suzanne O
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ŽivaAkcija
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Invision loves only big company, for personal use and small forum better use mybb.
Arantor
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Invision articles can have any structure. You literally define which fields you want in an article, and you can filter by them, etc.
Functionally you need something like ACF to do the same in WordPress (other plugins exist, writing your own isn’t hard either), but Invision’s feature set is basically “I want to create a series of Things, these are the fields a Thing needs” and it handles storage, display and filtering (though these are customisable to a point)
What this also means is that you can do something like “reviews of books in a field” and “reviews of apps in a field” and “other articles” all from the one built in core feature, and have different fields and filters for each.
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