We will most likely be moving to xenforo forum software

I think the time has come where we have outgrown the functionality of phpbb guys

I want to make this forum into a much larger community and quite simply, PHPbb is far too limiting to offer that to us. The downside to PHPbb is that you have to rely on third party plugins to be updated, they're often 'buggy'. Why would we want to spend hours coding and hacking stuff when xenforo can just do it out of the box

I have been looking at other forum software and come to the conclusion that xenforo is the better option for us. Some of you may know that I online marketing for a living (run my own company) and I'm part of of some forums (that run xenforo) and they have millions of hits a month - Barely any automated spam (you'll never 100% beat manual spam)

I'll try to keep the forum template the best I can but it is slightly outdated etc


What are you thoughts?

MrCodajastal said:

Do what you gotta do to be happy

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Well it's more about keeping up with modern times

Pretty much everyone wants to be synced with every social network. Google wants good content and the spammers are agressive

PHPbb can't handle it

MrCodajastal said:

Well as far as I can tell, you are the boss, which means you can do whatever the hell you want :lol:
We all have to move with the times, lest we get left behind :cry:

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That's the sprit


However, I'm only the one who pays the bills. It's the members that make the community....

Is this what they call bonding?

SwitchBiker said:

It's your money!

However, I feel that it's really not necessarry unless you are also contemplating the possibility of selling ad-space for interested persons/companies. Everyone appreciates charity, but at some point, unless you are bringing in enough money to atleast break even you will eventually tire of paying the bills for the rest of us to have a community.

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My plan is to get the site ranking better in Google and then join up with companies etc - I've already spoken with a company about having a duel competition etc

Basically, this is a project for my online marketing business. I wanted something that I would enjoy (being a moto vlogger) and be able to help others (vloggers) get their foot in the door.

So advertising no, joining up with companies who will get members free stuff yes.

The only 'adverts' as such is the adsense banner. I won't be keeping that money (when approved_ that will be split between the moderators as a thanks for helping me out etc

So in a nutshell. I'll be using this a project for myself but also use it as a case study for my marketing business

Shirou said:

Just do itttt!
But... Please don't G+ me bro!.

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That won't happen

ToastToGo said:

I've never heard of Xenforo...but I'm willing to see how the forum would be with it.

Only heard oh phbb and vbulletin.

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Well Xenforo is a much lighter version of vbulletin and its design/made from two of the ex develpors of vulletin blah blah

XXX526 said:

seomers said:

MrCodajastal said:

Do what you gotta do to be happy

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Well it's more about keeping up with modern times

Pretty much everyone wants to be synced with every social network....

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Is this the short way of saying you are "googlefying"? I sure hope not. Contrary to all the brainwashing, we can exist (just fine) without letting Google place their foot on our throats.

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No. It means that the forum will have a better presence on the internet. Much better than letting it slowly die off