Christopher
Member
What do you think of XenForo?
I'm sure XenForo is not going to be the forum solution for everyone right now. But it will be one of the best forum product in a year or two!
First impressions: snappy and fresh...
I just happened to catch the thread over on VB about XenForo, I feel like I'm late to the party though!
Will be waiting and watching to see what comes of this software, like most everyone else.
I am loving xenforo thus far. It's simple, easy, and fun to use. Everything feels stream-lined and integrated. I feel like I switched from the 2005 edition of yahoo mail to gmail all over again..
First impressions: snappy and fresh...
I just happened to catch the thread over on VB about XenForo, I feel like I'm late to the party though!
Will be waiting and watching to see what comes of this software, like most everyone else.
Sorta late to the early party, perhaps.
I am loving xenforo thus far. It's simple, easy, and fun to use. Everything feels stream-lined and integrated. I feel like I switched from the 2005 edition of yahoo mail to gmail all over again..
#4 SEO. A large percentage of existing money making vB sites use VBSEO. There needs to be some provision for either replicating VBSEO urls or providing automated redirects, or it will be financial (SERP) suicide for a site to migrate.
Developer community fostering and support is KEY. I think there is a major opportunity here for xenforo to coopt a lot of the vB dev community, but in order for that to work, there needs to be a CLEARLY outlined standard for how things will work going forward. IB burned a lot of folks, and they will want to know that they have a future with Xenforo.
Decent start. However it needs some work to chalenge the big solutions. Could be a decent new grassroot solution though.
Obviously things are missing, but I am very much liking what I'm seeing.
#4 SEO. A large percentage of existing money making vB sites use VBSEO. There needs to be some provision for either replicating VBSEO urls or providing automated redirects, or it will be financial (SERP) suicide for a site to migrate.
Developer community fostering and support is KEY. I think there is a major opportunity here for xenforo to coopt a lot of the vB dev community, but in order for that to work, there needs to be a CLEARLY outlined standard for how things will work going forward. IB burned a lot of folks, and they will want to know that they have a future with Xenforo.
Very true. People will not want to migrate to XenForo if their URLs got lost. XenForo needs to support commongly used URL structures like vBulletin, vB SEO, IPB to ease the migration proccess from other platforms.
Decent start. However it needs some work to chalenge the big solutions. Could be a decent new grassroot solution though.
Obviously things are missing, but I am very much liking what I'm seeing.
Could you guys perhaps be a bit more constructive and explain what you mean with missing? Not trying to be rude here, just looking for arguments to better understand what people think might be missing.
Very true. People will not want to migrate to XenForo if their URLs got lost. XenForo needs to support commongly used URL structures like vBulletin, vB SEO, IPB to ease the migration proccess from other platforms.
old_system -> new_xenforo url 301 rewrites or support is a matter of the right rewrite rules, or a custom script that you tell 'we come from this system', to catch urls entered. One of the problems is probably automatically recognizing where someone comes from (is this rewritten url old vbseo, or new vb4? etc).
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