What do you really like about XF?
- Thread starter Razasharp
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Razasharp
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I'll start off with a few:
UX - Personality
XF has personality. When you use it, it feels alive. Whether it's the little feedbacks you get when posting something, adding a post to multi quote, alert while you were on a thread to the small touches to animations, that fade out and slide away. When you interact with it it feels alive. (It would be great now, to extend that to when you are not 'doing stuff' - but merely observing or reading, eg while on the forum homepage - live updates of sorts; threads posted or posts made while you were watching, how many people looking at each forum, etc)
Back end
XF has been pretty rock solid so far - a testament to the level of coding. And while talking about the devs, I really like how Mike posts so much on the forum - helping people out, speaking to them and discussing things. It shows he is interested in how we are using his software, and that he genuinely wants to make it better for all of us.
The mods and community
It feels like the mods (and many in the community) get more involved with XF than on other platforms. Lots of guides (and plug-ins) written by mods here - much more than I see elsewhere.
UX - Personality
XF has personality. When you use it, it feels alive. Whether it's the little feedbacks you get when posting something, adding a post to multi quote, alert while you were on a thread to the small touches to animations, that fade out and slide away. When you interact with it it feels alive. (It would be great now, to extend that to when you are not 'doing stuff' - but merely observing or reading, eg while on the forum homepage - live updates of sorts; threads posted or posts made while you were watching, how many people looking at each forum, etc)
Back end
XF has been pretty rock solid so far - a testament to the level of coding. And while talking about the devs, I really like how Mike posts so much on the forum - helping people out, speaking to them and discussing things. It shows he is interested in how we are using his software, and that he genuinely wants to make it better for all of us.
The mods and community
It feels like the mods (and many in the community) get more involved with XF than on other platforms. Lots of guides (and plug-ins) written by mods here - much more than I see elsewhere.
Lisa
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I agree with everything you said, but this bit sums it up for me.
The bug tracker: http://xenforo.com/community/forums/bugs/
Daniel Hood
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Razasharp
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Yeah, have to agree there Andy - that was a very welcome and unexpected touch when I first started using it.
oman
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Yeah, shows that you don't need a separate program/add on to track bugs like other forum software I know.
wedgar
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Helpful peers who are also forum operators.
Software that works.
Helpful staff who appear to be online 24/7.
Software that works.
History of reliable upgrades/updates.
Did I mention software that works?
Strong add on developer community.
Oh yeh, software that works.
Generally happy and constructive user community.
Software that works.
Helpful staff who appear to be online 24/7.
Software that works.
History of reliable upgrades/updates.
Did I mention software that works?
Strong add on developer community.
Oh yeh, software that works.
Generally happy and constructive user community.
Max
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They have in most areas but still there are some crucial functionality missing. hope they will implement them in near future.I think they have already surpassed vB 3
I have just given mods access to my new forum and they said they can't wait for our other (vB 3) forum to move over as well :lol:
Having recently gotten my hands on a copy of XenForo (demo until I get the money to purchase it in a few weeks), I'd have to say it's the intuitive design, the excellent UI, and most of all, the fact that it's a brilliant software that just works. And like @AndyB mentioned, the AJAX moderation is a fantastic addition. The devs have really done a great job. 
Razasharp
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I posted about updating post counts here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/message-count-incorrect.67540 there is a query you can run for it
Digital Doctor
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Alerts
It's not vB.
It's not vB.
