XenForo 1.5 discussion and feedback
- Thread starter Paul B
- Start date
Tiki Tiki
Active member
Oh, yeah? Ask me why I'm about to switch from IPB.
Increased functionality doesn't improve performance.
Does anyone have Webmaster Tools data showing load times before/after upgrading to 1.5?
Daniel Hood
Well-known member
I don't know what kind of set up you have or development knowledge or of any existing issues you may already have with performance. That said, I think you might be more worried than you need to be. I'm aware of several large forums that have updated to 1.5 already, some were running beta versions, and everything was fine. XenForo's software scales very well, performance issues (even on shared hosting) are few and far between, etc..
TPerry
Well-known member
Maybe in a perfect world.. but frequently updates do "slow" performance - due to additional overhead that new features utilize (I'm not talking XenForo specifically but generally).
raytrails
Well-known member
Why are you switching from IPB?
Tiki Tiki
Active member
A multitude of reasons, really, but the two showstoppers are:
- IPB has switched to using CKEditor, WYSIWYG only, with essentially zero support for posting/editing BB codes. BB codes are absolutely critical for my site.
- IPB 4 is slower than molasses. If I search for New Posts here on the XF support boards, the pages display instantaneously. With IPB 4, I've timed it, it takes 7-10 seconds, on average, for me to pull up each page of new posts. Read a new post, and go back to the list on XF, instant, do the same with IPB, it's another 3-4 seconds to get back to the list. No thanks! IPS also touts cloud services, so I'm going to assume this isn't a simple case of Ferrari server (XF 1.5) vs VW Bug server (IPB 4.0.12.1.wewerejustkidding.2).
I think the only thing I'm really going to miss is that IPB 4 has a great built-in system for dragging and dropping widgets wherever you want them. Hopefully that is something that might find its way into XF 2.
Last edited:
We've had a few reports of problems when upgrading due to the comment like add-on: Comment Like [Paid]
The first post has been updated with information related to that: XenForo 1.5 discussion and feedback
The first post has been updated with information related to that: XenForo 1.5 discussion and feedback
jauburn
Well-known member
I looked at this back in the previous version. Was too slow then. Plus the system seems too locked down. Never interesting. I see a few boards on it now (Hip Forums, for example), and I think they've all made a mistake.
TPerry
Well-known member
Hmm.... don't have a lot of content on mine yet - but it seems about as snappy as my XenForo sites that have similar post amounts.
Mouth
Well-known member
Has anyone else put together a v1.5 "What's New" guide for users they're happy to share? I'm also interested to see how others have presented them, particularly tags.
Ingenious
Well-known member
I did quite a big upgrade from 1.1.2 all the way up to 1.5.0 in one go! I decided it was prudent to do this on a test clone of the forum first (thanks @Brogan for the guide and @Mouth for posting up a script with rsync and mysql commands which was really handy).
The test upgrade went perfect, the live one had an Internal Server Error but picked up from where it left off and went through OK.
< 50 minutes from start to finish, to get back to a working forum with the templates and customisations back in.
I was expecting the worst with customised templates but the merge system is brilliant! So easy! And I didn't need to revert too many style properties either, just mostly stuff that wasn't playing in responsive.
I realise I have new features which were probably brought in through 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 etc but loving how this software has evolved. We are overjoyed to shove the report centre were it belongs and get back to good old fashioned report threads, edit history is brilliant, moderator alerts (for when you edit or delete stuff to tell the user why) are genius.
Very happy then with 1.5 and XF remains a stunningly good value forum platform.
The test upgrade went perfect, the live one had an Internal Server Error but picked up from where it left off and went through OK.
< 50 minutes from start to finish, to get back to a working forum with the templates and customisations back in.
I was expecting the worst with customised templates but the merge system is brilliant! So easy! And I didn't need to revert too many style properties either, just mostly stuff that wasn't playing in responsive.
I realise I have new features which were probably brought in through 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 etc but loving how this software has evolved. We are overjoyed to shove the report centre were it belongs and get back to good old fashioned report threads, edit history is brilliant, moderator alerts (for when you edit or delete stuff to tell the user why) are genius.
Very happy then with 1.5 and XF remains a stunningly good value forum platform.
ActorMike
Well-known member
I'd like support for other payment processors besides Paypal. Authorize.net Authorize.net is one of the largest payment gateways in the world and submits billions of credit card transactions, and it's relatively easy to add support for it, and since it was supported by one of your competing products for many years, it might be a good idea to offer that as a payment option in addition to paypal for people migrating to your software. Paypal is for small time operations.
BTW Authorize.net's parent company is Cybersource which was acquired by VISA, Inc. So it's not like you are wasting your time adding payment support for some small time company, we use Authorize.net all the time on shopping carts we develop.
BTW Authorize.net's parent company is Cybersource which was acquired by VISA, Inc. So it's not like you are wasting your time adding payment support for some small time company, we use Authorize.net all the time on shopping carts we develop.
Julio Franco
Member
New on 1.5.1
Is there a style or setting where I can adjust for my own custom design's fixed header height?
Is there a style or setting where I can adjust for my own custom design's fixed header height?
Just passing by in this thread to say i'm so extremely happy with this software. I had no idea such a thing even existed out of the box. I'm an old school Vbull user and while Vbull 4 is still great, Xenforo takes everything to the next level.
Now if only i didn't make the mistake of buying Vbull 5
Now if only i didn't make the mistake of buying Vbull 5
ActorMike
Well-known member
Just passing by in this thread to say i'm so extremely happy with this software. I had no idea such a thing even existed out of the box. I'm an old school Vbull user and while Vbull 4 is still great, Xenforo takes everything to the next level.
Now if only i didn't make the mistake of buying Vbull 5
Haha! I came pretty close! I am real old school our forum started in 2001. I had the VB software since like 2003! As a matter of fact, had VB not been rude and nasty with me, I wouldn't have thought to look for reviews on them before upgrading. I had not had a reason to deal with them for years, but it was very obvious something had changed with operations and management. One of our competing sites tried to upgrade their VB a few months ago and it screwed up the whole site, so they ended up rolling back. I guess they are too prideful to suck it up and copy us. lol
Oh man, don't get me started. I needed some basic support and they way they replied felt like i was harassing them. And even more after using Xenforo i'm just wondering how the new team made something as bad as version 5. I tried to like it. I installed it, used it but man...it was just horrible. It looks ok but it's just...wrong. Thank god version 4 was included in the license so i was able to use that for a site. But now i discoverd Xenforo it's all i'll be using in the future. it's ridiculous how good it is. I know i sound like a paid poster and i usually don't talk like this but i'm really that happy with it.
Similar threads
