What add on's do you have custom coded for your forums?

[CedricV]

We all know that running a successful forum requires constant attention to improve the user experience. While there are plenty of pre-made add on's available, sometimes the best way to meet the unique needs of our community is by crafting custom-coded solutions. That's what we're here to discuss today – the add on's you've personally built for your forums or have bought.

So, I'm interested to hear, which kind of add on's do you have custom made for your forum?

 

[Ricsca]

You have to install as few components as possible... In the long run they only give problems since most are not updated quickly or are even abandoned...

 

[Suzanne O]

zilch custom made ones

three others

 

[Vercingetorix]

We all know that running a successful forum requires constant attention to improve the user experience.

...we do?

i am unsure about that assertion because the two most "successful forum" i have seen are run by two individuals i personally know and who couldn't care less about improving the user experience at all.

In both cases, their priorities for running a successful forum are first and foremost- the maintaining of basic user experience functionality.

Neither of these two successful forum administrators are interested in add-ons, infact they both advocate against such.

While there are plenty of pre-made add on's available, sometimes the best way to meet the unique needs of our community is by crafting custom-coded solutions. That's what we're here to discuss today – the add on's you've personally built for your forums or have bought.

So, I'm interested to hear, which kind of add on's do you have custom made for your forum?

Currently i have many different kinds of add-ons which are available for purchase or for free to verified XF clients from various legitimate developers.

i could list them all for you here, if you would like—however fyi: bear in mind that this will be a long list.

i also have one custom add-on which was actually requested by another individual who possibly could not afford to offer a developer more than a measley $20us.

Imo $20us was unreasonable and so i covered the cost for the individual and paid a developer $100us to create the requested add-on for the individual.

Unfortunately another developer decided to cut in line at the very last minute and presented a slightly tweeked existing free add-on which i am told partially fulfills the request—and so the individual appears to have jumped ship to grab the freebie.

As the saying goes: "No good deed goes unpunished", however i now have a proper fully functional custom add-on nonetheless.