Comments on: xenForo

By: Coding with Cake | Mikeylicious

Coding with Cake | Mikeylicious — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:14:29 +0000

[...] the MVC (Model View Controller), which some apps that I use and want to code for also use (read: XenForo), quite nicely, I kinda understand the basics behind the MVC now, but I’m still having to [...]

By: tanie wózki

tanie wózki — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:08:03 +0000

Specifically, to the point and factual. I like it!

By: aCommenter

aCommenter — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:47:46 +0000

Awesome work! Keep posting good material.

By: Richard Arblaster

Richard Arblaster — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:13:22 +0000

I think some are being quick to judge here. Not even giving it a chance because of the people behind it.

I’m not jumping on the bandwagon, I agree some of the posts are cringeworhty, however I think it has great potential.

Would I create a new forum using it from what I’ve seen so far? Possibly.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:19 +0000

But hey, competition is good. Any new features will probably get integrated into the other paid software, which is good for everyone

Either that, or the vBulletin.org modders will take features they like, and make them mods for vB. So yeah, good for everyone

By: cheat-master30

cheat-master30 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:48:17 +0000

I’m interested in xenForo personally, but I’m going to agree with some of the more cynical commentators. I mean, it’s not like I have anything against Kier and co, but their work with 3.6 and onwards before vBulletin had quite a lot of issues, in that it pretty much didn’t offer what people were requesting in favour of quickly added, nigh useless things.

Really, there’s a bit much of a rose tinted view towards pre IB vBulletin and it’s staff, but it’s worth considering they’re human like everyone else. And that the era had a good deal of shortcomings. I mean, trying to make a CMS was the one good thing IB did. It’s just I can’t shake the feeling Kier’s team are really pro developers first, businessmen second. And this often leads to their work getting quite a bit behind the competition.

But hey, competition is good. Any new features will probably get integrated into the other paid software, which is good for everyone, and hey, it’s an alternative for the 3.8 branch which vBulletin users can probably switch to. Just try to avoid overhyping it, because people seem to be jumping on a bandwagon here.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:07:04 +0000

I think that it’s because it’s more flashy than say, boring plain old PHPBB or even MyBB – which has been likened to vBulletin before. It uses jQuery and AJAX to make a modernised experience, which is really user-friendly.

By: David

David — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:41:27 +0000

Lets see what the product can actually do first before anointing it king of the jungle. After the flash mob dies, lets see how they continue to generate buzz and hype about the product, while creating a stable platform

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:10:38 +0000

Does the world really need a.n.other forum software? Especially one that will *feel* like vBulletin due to the history of the developers. In a climate where people are moving away from traditional forums, see your prev. post for details, it seems like a step in the wrong direction to be working on another — paid — forum software. With the market dominance of vB and IPB, this will struggle to make any impression on the paid part of the market. With the plethora of GOOD FREE forum packages out there, I question what success this may have.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:34:44 +0000

I think Lisa is right. Kier and Mike have admitted they still have work to do, so expectations of any add-ons is more than premature.

I anticipated their return to be big news and I was right about that. Hey, go figure – I was right for once!