Showcasing the Legacy Forum / New Age Social Media Hybrid

Sal Collaziano

Sal Collaziano

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XenSocial - A Social Feed for XenForo

Forums are powerful, but let's be honest - not everyone wants to click through thread titles to find a conversation worth reading. Younger audiences especially expect to scroll, discover, and interact all from a single page.

So we built XenSocial - a social media-style feed layer that sits on top of your existing XenForo forum. No migration, no separate platform. Same threads, same posts, same permissions - just a completely different way to experience them.

What it does:
  • 📜 Full post content displayed inline - no click-through required
  • 💬 Inline replies with threaded nesting
  • ❤️ Reactions without leaving the feed
  • ✍️ Full Froala rich-text editor for composing posts and replies (when logged in)
  • 🌙 Full dark mode support (Dark, Light, and System)
  • 📱 Mobile-responsive
  • 🔀 "Main Feed" and "My Feed" tabs for personalized browsing
  • 🔗 One-click "Legacy View" to jump back to the traditional thread
See it live: https://nissanarmadanismoforum.com/social-feed/

I'd love your feedback - what works, what doesn't, what's missing. This is actively being developed, and community input is shaping the roadmap.
 
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...to note, there's a whole lot more coming... When we're finished in a few days, XenForo will be a full-featured social network - with one feature that'll make it unique...
 
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Ohhhhhh wow @Sal Collaziano

This is a feature I need for my community.

We are a “small” poetry community and get lots of new threads every day. It can sometimes seem very cluttered and is also annoying for users, as they have to open each topic from scratch. This would be exactly the solution to the problem we are currently facing.

It would also be nice if i could create own feeds.
I could imagine displaying feeds for specific user groups—for example, topics from new members, topics by prefix, topics by forum category, etc.

I think I'll come up with a lot more ideas later. But if I were to introduce this to our community, I could imagine it being quickly accepted.
 
huan-karlos said:
it's great add-on!
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Thank you. :)
G@rgamel said:
Ohhhhhh wow @Sal Collaziano

This is a feature I need for my community.

We are a “small” poetry community and get lots of new threads every day. It can sometimes seem very cluttered and is also annoying for users, as they have to open each topic from scratch. This would be exactly the solution to the problem we are currently facing.

It would also be nice if i could create own feeds.
I could imagine displaying feeds for specific user groups—for example, topics from new members, topics by prefix, topics by forum category, etc.

I think I'll come up with a lot more ideas later. But if I were to introduce this to our community, I could imagine it being quickly accepted.
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Thank you. :) Interesting ideas! And I will keep a note of them. At the moment, the "My Feed" option allows people to see only things they're specific interested in. But it's always good to discuss additional functionality opportunities...
huan-karlos said:
better to open comments in pop-up window for mobile site version and hide reply area by default
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Thank you for the input! I've added this to my notes and will consider changing the add-on if enough people are looking for the same thing.
 
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