XenForo as forum software

[Vector]

For awhile now we've toyed with the idea of switching forum software, but nothing really concrete has been decided on. I've thought of XenForo multiple times, because it's in use by a lot of communities out there. I've had a lot of exposure to the software from an outside perspective, but never actually had it myself. Two sites that make use of it are the bukkit and spigot sites.

https://bukkit.org/
https://www.spigotmc.org/

However, this isn't free. The price tag is at least $140 / year, which I don't think is too unreasonable considering the features that we'd get. Actually, we'd have to pay $140 anytime we want to renew a license which allows us to buy future updates. We could keep the 1 year license and when it expires, just buy another when we want future updates.

Edit: When replying with your thoughts, check how our data is presented with SMF, and then check how it's presented with XenForo.

[SGT_ADZ]

Didn't you already try this software? And if I remember correctly, it was ****, bland, and quite frankly, nothing like what we wanted?

Focus on getting players to actually play first, then worry about the forums. Get the tutorials in a custom book, and put that in the starter kit, (like I suggested atleast a year and a half ago.) The forums arent a priority right now. The best thing to do currently is to transfer information from here to a physical item on the server.

[Vector]

Didn't you already try this software? And if I remember correctly, it was ****, bland, and quite frankly, nothing like what we wanted?

Focus on getting players to actually play first, then worry about the forums. Get the tutorials in a custom book, and put that in the starter kit, (like I suggested atleast a year and a half ago.) The forums arent a priority right now. The best thing to do currently is to transfer information from here to a physical item on the server.

You're probably thinking phpBB here. We never tried out XenForo. There is a 3-day demo, but it's stock, and I can only do so much with that 3 days. So meh.