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Xenforo popular new forum software
Posted: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:32:34 PM
MysticTrunks wrote:
Xenforo is one of the new forum software scripts that just went out of beta and also went commercial at the same time at a wopping $140!

Now I believe xenforo is worth the price mainly because of how clean everything is and how it just work's out of the box, it's also quite easy to skin(when you actually have a license, can't do shit unless you know where anything is and playing with a demo for a skin design is pointless..)


IPB and vB are worth their price as well. Even SMF is a nice forum software and it is free. Mybb is not bad either and is also free. You see people try to verify why one forum software is better then the others, but in truth they are all the same and offer the same.

MysticTrunks wrote:

Also don't be fooled into how the posts look, they can be modified to any way you want them to look and you can go further than you could with IPB or VBulletin. Of course this is just an observation as you can modify any forum software to do your biddingDancing


You can do this stuff easily in any forum software so your argument is pointless here. You are just trying to justify why xenforo is better in your own opinion, but in reality it is just another forum software that offers the same stuff. Nothing new or innovative about it.

MysticTrunks wrote:


What many people will like minus it's already into IPB and VB and just about any forum software out their is that it has Twitter and Facebook logins, yup no need to register these days and saves ya about 5 minutes.


Just about every forum software can do this. It is nothing new or recently innovated.

MysticTrunks wrote:

What make xenforo better than IPB or VB (just talking about commercial for now) is that it's under a newer framework so it's more than likely that it'll be superior and go beyond those 2 in just under a year or more and this is not a joke.


Forum software is different in general and always has the same basic features. People look at what is out their and when they try to improve it they do not succeed. They only create another like the ones before it and that is all xenforo is a forum software just like the ones before it.

MysticTrunks wrote:
But IPB or die hard Vbulletin fans will always say, hey our software's the best get over with it and join our (the dark) side!


Overall this little review of Xenforo is very one sided and a horrible review at best. And this sentence proves it (above in quote). You are a fan of Xenoforo and thus your review is one sided.


My advice to anyone looking to start a community is look around and read proper reviews and not peoples sole opinion (be they for any forum software). Fans will always pick their favorite and this is the reality of it. But it is not hard to find proper reviews of forum software that will truly help you decided if Xenforo, IPB, vB, phpbb, MyBB, SMF, etc is right for you.
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