![]() ![]() ![]() I felt that 1.x required a few add-ons and a custom theme to be fully-featured, but with those add-ons it couldn't be beat. I think 2.x is a lot more polished now, although I haven't used it much. It used modals sparingly and when it did it made the UX better. The email templates and notification systems were very useful as a user for receiving updates. ![]() Animations felt polished and unobtrusive. It had a simple like system, but there were some reaction add-ons that worked very well on the forums I owned/administered.Īs a user I think it has a very good UX. XenForo's templating system let me easily customize views and CSS styling. XenPorta made it simple to make an attractive blog-like homepage. I didn't like the cost ($150/yr iirc), but it was worth it since other offerings weren't as good in my opinion. The control panel was very powerful, and it had a very good selection of themes and add-ons. I mostly experienced it in the 1.x versions, so my experience is coming from that.Īs an administrator I appreciated that it was easy to setup. But on large forum "all threads" view will just flood the user with everything (forcing them to category selection) and neither of those two offer a way to bookmark a position on threads list (or even make it easy to just browse threads older than given date) - something that paginated threads list makes easy. When Discourse and Flarum first appeared infinite scroll was hailed as killer feature that will bring back the life to the forums, because navigating to next page of content supposedly was the issue that prevented people from discovering all the content. I also have simple categories structure but I am considering going back to classic one where there was category that stored forums which in turn stored threads. I've got a prototype that was infinite scroll but I've moved it back to paginated. I'm currently working on next iteration of my own forum software that I am using to run private forum about classic space games and I am now torn between traditional and "infinite scrolling". ![]()
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