XF 3 General Information & Discussion
- Thread starter Paul B
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Lots of envy here. Apparently, I'm the only one who ended up with the super strict Paul B?! He answers with the solution within 30 seconds just to avoid accessing my site. I think I'll file a complaint about this...I talked to @Paul B in a support ticket one time! I win!
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rkxh
Member
To get a bit back to the topic.
I am genuinely curious when we will see XF3. While we can only speculate - I feel like it may not take that long at all, especially given how stable 2.3 is in the latest release (I adopted 2.3 when it came out; 2.3.2 fixed a large amount of bugs).
Would be nice to see the releases flying through like this
I am genuinely curious when we will see XF3. While we can only speculate - I feel like it may not take that long at all, especially given how stable 2.3 is in the latest release (I adopted 2.3 when it came out; 2.3.2 fixed a large amount of bugs).
Would be nice to see the releases flying through like this
Mouth
Well-known member
Given a previous announcement this year that going forward XF will have no less than 6 months release cycles, we should see it by January 09th.
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Deleted member 184953
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Morning or evening?
... I must have been hallucinating... 
DeviateDefiant
Member
I emailed support trying to find out, as I have a big new forum project to build. Unfortunately they couldn't give me any kind of ETA.
I'm weighing up just starting to build before launch on v2.3 and the default theme, ready to hopefully upgrade without issue.
I'm weighing up just starting to build before launch on v2.3 and the default theme, ready to hopefully upgrade without issue.
Mendalla
Well-known member
So 2028, then? Not sure my site will still be around by then. Which,.of course, saves me the trouble of upgrading.
Depending on the forum size, amount of customisation etc then absolutely right: a lot of owners will hate upgrading. Because it's more than running an upgrade wizard for a handful of users. Not to mention months of testing because if it doesn't work and someone plugs it live... £££ lost. (ergo crowdstrike)
So, yup - a lot of people hate upgrading.
tajhay
Well-known member
Some of us have more than 3 registered members. Not to mention large amounts of customisation. And we dont get thrilled by "forum background" changes when we can easily do it ourselves.
rkxh
Member
It is exactly as @tajhay and @James say. Our forum upgraded from XF1.3 (2014) to XF2.2 in March. The last thing I want to do is to invest time, money and effort into something, which I might have to overthrow again in a couple of months time, just so that I can benefit of the goodies provided by XF3.
Of course one can say that the plugin and theme developers can update their work, but the more customization you use, the more dependant you become.
Especially statements like "shortly after XF2.3" or "we have someone working on it" raise hopes to just hold on a little longer.
Of course, I understand that every product has it's developement cycle, but one also needs to understand that we have to maintain our communities.
Of course one can say that the plugin and theme developers can update their work, but the more customization you use, the more dependant you become.
Especially statements like "shortly after XF2.3" or "we have someone working on it" raise hopes to just hold on a little longer.
Of course, I understand that every product has it's developement cycle, but one also needs to understand that we have to maintain our communities.
Mr Lucky
Well-known member
I wouldn’t go as far as to say hate, but I don't really like upgrading, there is always some stress. If it's a security patch or bug fix then it's necessary stress, but unless I actually appreciate any new features then I don't see the point in upgrading for the sake of getting new stuff. That said, there definitely some things in the 2.3 upgrade I find useful and I'm sure 3.0 will bring advantages if only the new editor.
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Deleted member 184953
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Yes, that's the difference between people who manage real communities and for whom the back-end is just something that has to work, that's all, and people who manage small communities and whose passion is the back-end (like me). I would like to be in the first category but that's not the case yet, so updating my forum and tinkering a bit with ACP is fun for me.
Heck I don't run anything that's financially dependent so I upgrade just to have the "latest and greatest" for absolutely nobody. But any community that isn't a hobbyist isn't going to jump into an upgrade voluntarily unless the juice is worth the squeeze - and bearing in mind the squeeze can absolutely be £1,000s if it ****s up.
Curious as to how many financially self-sustaining (or profit-making) communities run XF cloud - because at some point you'd be forced to upgrade.
Different strokes, different folks. But upgrading becomes much more cumbersome if it isn't vanilla - addons, customization, php version, downtime, testing, tweaking, etc.
At some point "if it ain't broke" comes to mind... Unless it's so much more substantially better to warrant the push at all costs.
Curious as to how many financially self-sustaining (or profit-making) communities run XF cloud - because at some point you'd be forced to upgrade.
Different strokes, different folks. But upgrading becomes much more cumbersome if it isn't vanilla - addons, customization, php version, downtime, testing, tweaking, etc.
At some point "if it ain't broke" comes to mind... Unless it's so much more substantially better to warrant the push at all costs.
Forsaken
Well-known member
A small site had a cost loss of $3k income because it took a bit longer to get everything setup than had been expected
. Think the 'downtime' was 1.5 or 2 days, and we considered rolling back because we ran into an issue that did not come up in the ~6 months of testing.This was on a Tuesday-Wednesday, which normally makes less income than the weekend but also lined up with a surge in re-activity.
