I dont need or want any of those, except better handleing of Reports (moderation?)Things new or improved in IPS4 which I would love to see or see improved upon in XF:
- Social groups
- Go back to 1
- Multi-Language support (Burning Board does this much better)
- Moderation enhancements including workflows & crowd moderation.
- Commerce (donations, subscriptions, monetizing)
- Better Search. (XFES is too basic for a paid addon. IPS search is not perfect either though)
- SSO
- Social Media Marketing
- SEO improvements including site speed improvements.
- Documents / Downloads Manager
If you have a suggestion for specific features you'd like us to consider then you'd be better to post them in the Suggestions forum. Telling us to "look at some other software" is really not helpful and really not something that we want to do as we have our own ideas for our own software just like I'm sure IPS do for theirs.
Of course you have your own ideas, and I have no doubt that they are going to be excellent. But sometimes it can be useful to see at your competition as well. If you are Intel, you are not ignoring AMD and saying "yeah we don't look at them, we just do our own thing". (or, they did that for years, and look where that brought them).Telling us to "look at some other software" is really not helpful
We don't compete, because it is a must-lose war.To compete with all the social media (Discord, Reddit, Facebook and many many more, depending on your niche), and already established communities out there today, just setting up a forum and calling it a day isn't enough.
We don't compete, because it is a must-lose war.
Seeing thousands of forums in Mainland China died one after another in these 10 years, simply because users really prefer to use SNS like WeChat, Weibo, etc.
In such case, a forum has no necessity to copy SNS-specific functions.
I didn't loose members. I stopped running forums since late-2010 till December 2019.It's not about copying reddit or discord.. It's about providing a unique platform so that you can attract users in this decade.
You think there are as many forum users as it was in 2010? It's not. Even though social media isn't a direct substitute for a forum (it isn't!), but for many it "does the job" in a similar manner, sadly. So you lose members because of it.
And what's the point of them? Especially from the calendar, it would be quite logical to make a separate addition as a gallery and resource. That's how it saidPersonally, the only feature missing from the core is social groups, and maybe an integrated calendar. Everything else should be left as add-ons to keep the core software from becoming unnecessarily bloated with features most may never use. Just my opinion.
Stay safe,
Lawrence
Thus, it becomes a useless function for some people. And it would be better to be a separate additioncore software from becoming unnecessarily
What is this fascination with a Calendar. Why do forums "need" one?
Already added via tables to Froala (and you don't know how much joy that brought seeing that added as a feature)!And a spreadsheet?
Events
I dont need or want any of those, except better handleing of Reports (moderation?)
I've been administering boards since the early 2000s and boy am I suprised how little the whole concept of forums has evolved. I've used Ikonboards, early IPBs, vBulletins, bb Boards, and now Xenforos.
And I really have to tell you guys: I am really happy with my Xenforo. It's fast, the functionality is rock-solid, it has very few bugs and considering the underlying code: It's very future proof.
Would 2.2 just be a refactoring of existing code to make it more versatile for extentions and themes: I would be fine with that! Having a thrving extention ecosystem built upon a set of rocksolid apis that don't break with every update is worth so much more than any nieche feature used by 3% of the installation base.
And to be fair: There are already some very hidden gems in the code. The payment system for example. It is abstracted in a way that does not make sense, when you just want to do user upgrades. So theoretically any developer could hook into the existing systems and build some basic ecommerce features themselves. The apis are (mostly) there.
So I'm really excited what the XF team brings to the table in order to make the base software more solid!
If you want to be really picky, there are exposed tokens parsed via URLS in plain text, which could be considered a security issue BUT those tokens don't expose any identifying information.@Luehrsen
I had my Xenforo system checked by my hacker friend who entered the bank systems and detected open doors and informed the banks. The answer he gave me is unnecessary code, but there is no vulnerability.
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