What is next for XenForo?
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Jeremy
in memoriam 1991-2020
Application Programming interface. It allows non-XenForo programs and scripts to send formatted requests to XenForo (XenForo can be any application) and interact with its database in a safe way. This is how Twitter clients function. I believe TapaTalk may add one so it functions properly.I don't know exactly what an API does but it sounds so cool.
Teapot
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Why, may I ask, is that? What's wrong with the current codebase that it warrants being (at least partially) ripped out?
Shelley
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Social networking sites are killing xenforo (forums in general) the proof is here >> http://xenforo.com/community/threads/forums-are-dead.62329/ so the survival of xenforo depends on whether these sites just melt into slimy goo one day and xenforo will live on ensuring it's (I feel a hashtag moment coming) #survival .
Liam W
in memoriam 1998-2020
I don't know if there's a suggestion for it, or if other people would like it, but I wouldn't mind a post comment feature like the one in vB - just fully controlled by permissions 
Also, the post/topic move/merge system could do with some improvements (move single posts in a thread to another thread etc.).
Liam
Also, the post/topic move/merge system could do with some improvements (move single posts in a thread to another thread etc.).
Liam
Mike Edge
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The sarcasm is strong in this one #JediTraining #UseTheForceShelley #WeHaveBetterCookies
whynot
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That's a good feature as long as it's being disabled.but I wouldn't mind a post comment feature like the one in vB - just fully controlled by permissions
OSS 117
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You must survive to be one with the XF gods by doing the Xen Dance after the Xen Slam. Run into a brick wall and then roll around in hot coals. #YOLO
Sheratan
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Shelley you really like #hashtag
Shelley
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Shelley you really like #hashtag
I actually loathe hash tagging.
But I know @Chris Deeming loathes them more so I'm determined and making it my mission to use them more in my #postings #chrisisawesome #buthewontlikeviewingthesehashtags #runsfrompost Back on-topic. What I wouldn't like to see in the core or in a future update is hashtagging in posts #notcorematerial #bestleftasanaddon
Jeremy
in memoriam 1991-2020
If done correctly it could be brilliant. The Twitter / Facebook method is the worst. Would never turn it on if it was like that in XenForo.I actually loathe hash tagging.
Back on-topic. What I wouldn't like to see in the core or in a future update is hashtagging in posts #notcorematerial #bestleftasanaddon
Shelley
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Yeah, I have to admit I'm not a real fan of the hashtagging on twitter but I suppose (as you say) it needs a new way or different way of being done/developed right. Personally, I find it hard to see how but developers are way more knowledgeable in that regard and I'm sure it could be better than the way social sites method of implementation.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the add-ons either but willing to be converted if a creative way of doing hashtagging ever springs up.
OSS 117
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I stopped using Twitter after using it for about five months. It was rather annoying. When you weren't reading first-world problems you were getting ads for Cialis among other naughty things. Oh and there was that one guy who would always throw a fit and then claim it wasn't him who did it. He was a member here. 
Sheratan
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I also agree with this!
Digital Jedi
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Er, okay. But that's still only two more still older than a year. Does anyone know of any software offered anywhere that doesn't have a ongoing bug list? What matters is the size of the list and how critical to the functionality of the forum the bugs actually are and the relative degree to which their fixed. There's a reason they call them bugs. You can't keep them out of the house completely. XF does a stellar job of keeping this list small.
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tommydamic68
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• "Better" mobile style. Similar to Tapatalk functionality with Adsense capability. (Mobile IS the future- like it or not!)
• Member list manager - abilities to search members got any criteria, posts, likes, trophies points etc.
• Member album/ gallery with option to share images in posts and threads via an editor button.
• "Better" member profile page.
• Member list manager - abilities to search members got any criteria, posts, likes, trophies points etc.
• Member album/ gallery with option to share images in posts and threads via an editor button.
• "Better" member profile page.
Tapatalk is an app', not a style.
The current mobile implementation is far better than a third party app' and AdSense has been supported since day one.
pipedreams
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In my opinion there is nothing more urgent for XF at the moment. It would ensure more engagement with forum users if they had such a page.
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