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Floris
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What would be a showstopper for you during purchase, if you could get a copy -right now-, in regards to add-ons? Compared to other BBS solutions or what you are using right now?
For me to even consider changing my main forum, I would need at the bare minimum:
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- Automatic posting new threads to twitter (whilst minimal in nature, it provides a huge service to a large audience who are twitter oriented to follow new topics)
- CMS - Some type of basic article with sections ability to isolate important content for ease of finding and reading.
- Ability that google translate integrates into the site to allow user multi-lingual abilities for true multi-lingual community discussion, ie. post in Chinese and I read in English, vice versa.
- IM & live chat (arrowchat, cometchat, something along those lines as a third party would need to support integration)
- Blog would be nice, as my users do use them, ie. member diaries, group blogging. (not as essential as CMS, but would be nice as an additional product)
The product obviously needs to have decent inbuilt abilities for spam protection to stop it in its tracks.
- CMS minimal (I don't do bridging well nowadays and prefer an all-in-one product - vb or IPB)
Anti spam measures are a must for me, but even more so: user friendliness. I hate signing up on sites where I spend 15 minutes just to get an account.
Akismet support for existing content, and stopforumspam integration as preventive meassure; would help.
However, dealing with a spammer is easier than I've ever seen before on a forum. I am looking forward slaying some users on my sites with this
I mentioned this in another post. Even if xenForo is working on a convert option (and I did not hear anything negative about this), we have a developer at xenfans.com that has made a vb4 to vb3 downgrade service, and is working on xenPort, a convert option to go from old_system -> xenforo_system. Since we do not have the database structure at the moment, it's not yet finished. And I am sure perhaps others are considering offering a convert option as well. I am certain this is not a showstopper for people with existing boards like vbulletin or ipb.
We're mostly still on VB3.8.X boards for the big stuff and smaller boards and new projects are on VB4.0.5 - We'll keep an eye on that point. I noticed the XenPort option floating around and I didn't know about xenfans.com - sorry for the redundancy.
Xenfans isn't open yet We have to hide a few things before going public.
ENF: your quote post got all wobbly for me .. something go wrong there?
Registration on this site is a little cumbersome. Would be nice to simply ask for username, email, password, antispam and be done with it. Nothing else really needs to be there.Ignore user, ignore thread, ignore forum (with admin overrides).
Like system is nice but a true rating system that can sink troublesome threads would welcome also.
Stopforumspam integretion and a keyword spam detector would also help
Anti spam measures are a must for me, but even more so: user friendliness. I hate signing up on sites where I spend 15 minutes just to get an account.
Akismet support for existing content, and stopforumspam integration as preventive meassure; would help.
However, dealing with a spammer is easier than I've ever seen before on a forum. I am looking forward slaying some users on my sites with this
CMS, blog and hook/plug-in system so I can do everything else on my own.
Off the top of my head: a CMS, multiquote functionality, and paid subscriptions.
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