What is Reddit's opinion of XenForo?

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I LOVE THE EARLY SEADON TRASH TALK THREADS BECAUSE THERE'S STILL ENOUGH HOPE FOR THE UNION AND WE DON'T TRASH TALK OURSELVES JUST YET.

YOU KNOW WHAT'S MORE ABSURD ABOUT COLMBUS THAN THEIR PISS-STAIN KITS? THE FACT THAT THEY WANT A STATUE OF MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE. WTF COLMBUS? FIRST OF ALL, HE STOLE HIS CATCH PHRASE FROM A GIANT PITCHER OF RED SUGAR WATER. SECOND, WHO THE HELL BUILDS A STATUE OF FAKE ATHLETES THAT WERE ACTUALLY JUST ENTERTAINERS? THIRD, WHAT THE HELL IS A MAPFRE? AN INSURANCE COMPANY? ANY CHANCE THE CREW TOOK OUT A POLICY AGAINST SHITTY KIT SALES FOR THIS SEASON? I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE ALL THE OVERAGES SHIPPED TO AFRICA - WAIT, MAYBE THAT'S THEIR STRATEGY FOR ACQUIRING NEW FANS!

SPEAKING OF WHICH, WILL YOU GUYS EVEN BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS GAME ON TV SATURDAY NIGHT? I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WANT TO WATCH YOUR TEAM LOSE YO THE UNION, BUT TO EACH THEIR OWN.

Because the same sort of system on other sites automatically caused everything to go to hell, right?

Heck, the XenForo equivalent even has one for 'drama queen':

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/post-ratings-taking-likes-to-the-next-level-paid.28475/

God, can you imagine the reaction from the SJWs and media if THAT was part of Facebook's reactions?

Xenforo: https://xenforo.com/

The largest forum running the software has over 100 Million posts. Here's a list of large boards running Xenforo: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/the-large-xenforo-forums-list.87974/

The tricky part will be converting your data so you can import it into Xenforo.

You're right. It's well past time for GOMI to move away from WordPress. vBulletin seems like the obvious choice, as others have pointed out, and it even has built-in support for paid subscriptions. Partypants seems adamant about using Simple:Press, though.

Edit: There's also XenForo, which hosts much larger websites than GOMI.

I'm confused -- it's moving, not disappearing. Are the forum maintainers worried they're going to lose their backups?

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https://xenforo.com/community/resources/vbulletin-big-board-importer-vbulletin-3-vbulletin-4.1981/

If you're a fan of the traditional vBulletin/phpbb style forum, then Xenforo (https://xenforo.com/) is pretty much the best of that breed.

Because of /u/TobyG123's recommendation, I checked out EsoTalk. I think a small built-by-one-man forum like that would probably be more fun and easier to extend with your own ideas. But frankly, I never liked the modern "channel" system in lieu of actual subforums.

I'm a web developer. In fact, I'm primarily in forum software (https://xenforo.com/community/resources/authors/jaxel.1295/).

Would gladly put something together if needed. I also run https://8wayrun.com

> Most likely the latter.

I was doubting that since it'd be almost as much as he paid zingy... sure enough, looks like XF allows transfers, but only once (so he used up the freebie). https://xenforo.com/community/threads/selling-of-a-license.90600/

You certainly wouldn't want to run vB. It lost virtually all of its value including the mod community when the original authors sold it.

The new owners re-wrote it from the ground up and destroyed it. I was a big fan of vB from the beginning.

Thankfully, when the original authors of vBulletin left, all of them got back together and wrote a whole new, MUCH improved system. It's called Xenforo and it substantially better.

it's what vB should have been but the new owners are a marketing company. I would say 99% of the mod community left vB completely when it happened, and most migrated to Xenforo.

So if it's been awhile since you were in that market (it sounds like you might be), don't make the mistake I did and buy vB for it's ungodly inflated price, consider Xenforo, and PM me if you would like more detailed info. Was perusing your post history and now realize your political stance and... well.... job :), and since I'm a huge fan and definite supporter, thought maybe i could fill you in some.

Let me know if you need help

It appears that Xenforo developers don't have any integration scheduled for PWA (forum post here) so there'd be a lot of custom work in making it work like one. If I was trying to achieve what you are, I'd probably go with a Wordpress + Buddypress type setup (so you have the same forum control) and use SuperPWA 1.7 plugin. Would be the closest thing with the most minimal custom work.

The fined tuned voting categories thing is actually quite common on forums now. There's a XenForo plugin for 'post ratings' that adds this stuff:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-ratings-taking-likes-to-the-next-level.410/

And IPB 4 has it built in. So the system is at least becoming more common now, and works well.

Honestly any sidebar hosts would work just fine for you.

Here is how to install it: https://xenforo.com/help/installation/

If you need help just PM me and i would be glad to help you get it all set up.

I imagine a proper forum with better layout than Ubi forums would be nice.

XenForo is a nice modern forum system, though somebody (preferably a group of them) would have to shell out 140 bucks for a license.

First: It's not WordPress...

Second: One way seems to be checking the scripts that are linked... changes depending on what's needed for that page of course.

Anyway, looks like it's using XenForo...

> XenForo

If this is that XenForo what I think of, than it is piece of cake: https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/languages/

/u/Darkaeluz if you are talking about a forum UI than it is already solved problem: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/%F0%9F%87%AA%F0%9F%87%B8-xenforo-2-2-8-spanish-translation.6020/

I tried this integration and can't recommend it. Had several issue and the integration was never stable. It is 10-12 months ago so might have changed.

This one seems to be one of the best solutions out there at the moment and the developer is active and responsive. I do not have any other experience with than following the thread for some time, as I am also looking for the right solutions to use xenforo and WordPress https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xftowp-xenforo-to-wordpress-integration-paid.188385/page-2

Haven't used it, but it looks possible:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/xftowp-xenforo-to-wordpress-integration.8161/

Honestly, could just do a blog.yoursite subdomain, and separate that way too.

I'll likely be switching to Xenforo. They have an add-on you can buy for applications it looks like. Haven't done much digging yet tho https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ozzmodz-advanced-forms.5632/reviews

You've gotten a lot of good suggestions but here's another one.

Your situation reminded me very much of what would happen when PHPBB / Vbulletin plugin is in use against a user. In that world it's called "Miserable User" and its used to discourage problem users from using the website.

I went looking and HuskerMax uses XenForo and sure enough it has similar capability called "Discouraged Users".

DU can be done by both login and IP address, meaning that its quite possible the forum software itself is rejecting you based on your external (public) IP address.

I'm not saying you are a problem user (though you could be, I don't know) but if your not its possible that there is an IP address in the pool that COX uses that has been banned or DU'd and you occasionally get that address.

So the next time this happens pop into your router and see what its external IP is. Then do a DHCP renew on its WAN / Internet interface and see if you pull a different IP.

If you do then try the forum again and see if it works.

If you don't then do a complete powercycle of your cable modem and router and see if you get a new IP.

If you do try the forum again and see if it works.

If shifting your external IP gets you access to the forum the you know where the problem is.

BTW, the reason that TOR would get your around this is because your exit node will have an IP that isn't on the BAN or DU list.

>I wish another company would take a crack at modernizing the forum experience.

XenForo exists and (at least from the user end, haven't tried moderating or administrating one) is a fairly good combination of old phpBB-style forums with modern Web features like media embedding.

If you scroll right down to the bottom you can see that the forum is used trough xenforo services or whatever, a forum service provider. In the license agreements there is a part that claims that they can also shut down any customer of theirs:

>XenForo Limited reserves the right to revoke Your License to use the Software should any of the terms of this Agreement be violated. In the event that We revoke Your License for a violation of this Agreement, no refund will be granted.

We could probably mass report them on there too, since I doubt XenForo would enjoy being associated with incels.

>Xenforo is more complicated to set up and keep running. Between having to massage Apache and PHP to get it to run without errors and having to find a ton of configuration changes in order to get friendly URLs to work, I have also had errors when updating between Xenforo2 versions as well as when updating themes.

Not really. Hell I followed a guide on Linode (or it might have been Digital Ocean) quite some time ago, dropped https://xenforo.com/xenforo-requirements-test.zip in and added whatever was missing or errored out.

>Xenforo is more expensive. At $160 it's a little under twice the cost of Enjin.

Yes it is - but you have full control over it.

>I also have to pay for Buycraft/Tebex for my webstore.

You "pay" for that sort of service regardless - be it in restrictions on what you can do (Enjin).

>I also have to pay for MineSync which doesn't work as well as EnjinMinecraftPlugin for account syncing.

Really? I've never had a major issue and whenever I did a quick support ticket later and a fix was pushed out.

>Enjin has additional features like some basic analytics stuff built in.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/plan-player-analytics.32536/ - enough said.

>Enjin has automations, forum integration and vote handling functionality.

Any half decent vote handling plugin can do the same. MineSync handles the Xenforo <-> server sync side of things. As to automations - as you don't specify can't answer that.

>I am curious how you all handle your websites, webstores and integrations. What do you all recommend?

Running a (small) mixed modded network and using Xenforo & MineSync. I don't "sell" cosmetics - they are included with each higher tier of membership level which is done via Xenforo.

Nothing has to be developed. They just need to take their thumbs out of their ass. This is like a 2 hours setup, tops. https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tickets.7442/

In addition to what /u/azwerf said, it appears VB forums getting hacked has become a plague of sorts recently ever since that exploit was revealed.

Just today Comodo's official forum was hacked in the same manner, allegedly to steal user information and passwords.

Regardless of whether your case was a coordinated attack, a skiddie or a bit of both, i would advice migrating from vBuletin as that system had been plagued with issues ever for years from what i heard both nowadays and back in the day.

If doing so by tinkering with FOSS solutions isn't an option for you, there's a decent commercial solution called XenForo which comes with a lot of first-party migration scripts that could do the job.

If I had the time, I would definitely be interested. I would probably move the forum to xenforo, same as used by FreeBSD forums, imho better than Discourse, and add lots of static content.

I hope they will find a new "owner". A forum fills a niche that no other medium can. Best of luck.

XenForo 2 is badly broken on PHP probably due to opcache. I've actually had those issues firsthand before I read about them. Developers recommend rolling back to PHP 7.2.

More info: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-2-0-12-released.157685/ https://xenforo.com/community/threads/php-7-3-0-issues.157481/

I'd say if it's new then definitely start out with shared. A lot of people over estimate how difficult it can be to start an online community and get a lot of traffic to it. I wouldn't commit to very long terms, maybe a year max since a lot of shared providers offer steep discounts for paying yearly. I'm sure someone else can recommend a good shared provider but sadly I work in the VPS/Dedicated space and really don't dabble too much on the shared side of things. Just avoid EIG brands & Godaddy. Look for those who give defined resources, unlimited may sound good but very often a lot of things are hidden in the terms of service that limit and restrict you.

Also check out Xenforo's on forums, https://xenforo.com/community/ you can poll current users to see who they might recommend.

Good luck!

According to this post, ips aren't logged in conversations in xenforo:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/log-ip-addresses-in-conversations.73943/

I've never admined xenforo, so I don't know if that is correct.

Anyway, I was referring to the discussion you had with silky regarding ipv6. Some ISPs only have ipv6 and you can't expect users to switch to ipv4 just for your forum. That's what I was referring to.

If Barb and Silky both had the same ip of the same mall shop then yes that would be very suspicious, but in the PMs in question you only seemed to mention a proxy server. To be honest it's hard to know what's true and what's bullshit.

>turns out that Adin caused it to happen with a rookie mistake.

See, this is the problem I have with your moderation and some of the other posters on PR, and is why I've never posted there. Adin spent hours trying to fix the problem last night and I was talking to him trying to give him suggestions for what to try. Everyone who manages a server makes mistakes that cause problems like this. If Adin had been more recently experienced in the server it probably would have taken him a few mins to figure it out. I gather that he made a change inside xenforo which somehow caused cpanel to die and not restart. That in itself is kind of weird, which explains why he didn't figure it out sooner. He said that Mark installed cpanel since he last used the server, so he didn't know how to manage it. (This isn't a dig at Mark, just an explanation).

Dunno what kind of forum you like to start but sounds illegal, cause you want to fake and proxy stuff which makes me a little bit uagh. I usually not trust boards without any contact address or if I not know which one is really behind this. I think if it's secure hosted then there is no need to 'manipulate' the rest.

But to answer the question, I have some good experience with phpBB and xenoforum software.

> dashcamtalk.com

Browsing the forum section of the website you posted and scrolling right down to the bottom, it has "Forum software by XenForo™ ©2010-2017 XenForo Ltd.", so yeah, as posted above - If that's what you want, go buy it from https://xenforo.com/

Currently in the process of setting up MineSync on my network.

Only tested it with my staff and a small selection of donors, but had no issues so far.

If you don't have experience in web development then you're better off using something like https://xenforo.com/ regardless this is a lot easier than setting it up yourself. I've used this website for a client before so i'd recommend it.

Edit: most software like this are paid, but you can easily make a forum using Ruby on rails.

I'm pretty sure there isn't an API for the game, so think it will mostly be limited to reference materials. For the mod database, I was thinking of doing Xenforo Resource Manager (on a website). Something like this: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/

If there is enough demand for that then I can look into doing that as well. I was planning on doing a nice website, but wanted to tailor it to SOASE 2.

Author: cointrading

Content:

>Forum site owners which are running the popular forum software Xenforo are able to process advertisement slots on their forum using Bitcoin.

>The xenforo plugin developer Siropu added Bitcoin as a payment option. Site owners are able to choose between:

Bitpay Coinbase Blockchain Manual Mode which does not involve a 3rd party api

>Link to the plugin!

This is the page there using via xenforo

http://jsfiddle.net/v6dazoq0/ might help out if you look at how it grabs the title you can grab viewers, game, image, title etc..

I don't have conclusive proof, but I'm personally pretty convinced and pretty horrified. If my hunch is right, I think we should make some noise so that their attempt to attack veterans backfires. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Has anyone heard of other examples like this? The forum owner wrote in another post that "I am a member of other American active military and American-Veteran sites (non-XenForo) and was told that some of the other subject related sites are having the same problem."

Check out some of the articles linked to from the post (like the New York Times one). Pretty amazing stuff.

I'll be off the grid for a bit, so I might not be able to respond to comments until Monday. :(

> I had created that site before that subreddit was made also.

I'm afraid not. They advertised their sub as early as 22 days ago, while your domain was registered less than three weeks ago (~20 days).

Furthermore, how do you "break" a hyperlink?

This is your index: > <div id="copyright">Forum software by XenForo™ <span>©2010-2015 XenForo Ltd.</span> </div>

This is how it should look: > <div id="copyright"><!--XF:branding--><a href="https://xenforo.com" class="concealed">Forum software by XenForo™ <span>©2010-2015 XenForo Ltd.</span></a><!--/XF:branding--> </div>

You didn't accidentally delete a phrase in the ACP as editing the copyright requires changes to the core files. At the very least, it's a violation of XenForo's license agreement that explicitly states:

> All copies of the Software must contain the same proprietary notices that appear on and in the Software, including all copyright notices embedded in the Software, which must remain unaltered from the original and visible at all times, unless by specific prior arrangement with XenForo Limited.

Kuthara: https://xenforo.com/help/discouraging-banning/ It's because they most likely didn't give a reason when they banned the account. Otherwise it would of displayed. As the link mentions at the bottom of the website.

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Judging by the website sidebar widget its most likely not an up to date XF forum with the latest revision so could also be the reason why.

They could, like, pay money for forum software with actual tech support, like XenForo. It's really not that expensive if you don't want to go free. They also do conversion from SMF. Then spend the zillion bucks on a nice theme.