XenFORO meaning

[Angelo Renna]

What does the trademark XenFORO stand for? How was it derived? Just curious as the word seems arcane and hard to pronounce on the surface.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Xen sounds cool, and Foro is Spanish for forum.

 

[Ozzy47]

xenForo meaning

i wonder why its called xenForo :) is there a story behind?

xenforo.com

How did you come up with the name xenForo ?

(Forgive if this has been posted/answered elsewhere) Kier/Mike, I'm just wondering how did you came up with the name xenForo? I actually like it and I'm guessing that it's a combination of two words?

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[feldon30]

Xen- as a prefix means foreign or different.
Foro is Spanish/Italian for forum.

It also kind of sounds like "different 4" as XenForo was what vBulletin 4 was supposed to be if the team had been allowed to rewrite the software from scratch.