Not that it is at all relevant to this thread, but there are few left who remember that the subject of switching to Xenforo was brought up in a skype chat designated for discussion on moving to a new software that is less taxing on the server more than a year before the move actually happened...
Wow this thread is the most active at 5am my time...
I seem to be having an easier time finding addons for IP Board than I ever have with Xenforo. If anyone remembers we also lost lots of additional things when we switched a year ago. This does mean we might have things like blogs back, etc...
ooh, glad you mentioned this since I do not think it has been brought up. That would be handled the same as the vb switch. They will be removed with a forum software change. But IP Board does have an awards addon that can be implemented.
I have not seen the numbers in a while, but the forum is...
Not seeing much in the way of toxicity on the ZI forums. I think that is a holdover from how things looked nearly three years ago.
I like having an arcade around and I agree the shoutbox is almost a necessity. That 3-ish months we were without one was awful.
Lowering importance of plugins is...
Yea that's the way I see it too, but apparently letting them keep their forum was supposed to be our way of throwing them a bone and letting them keep something in the takeover.
More likely than people realize when I brought it up almost a month ago. Do not think I have heard much else on it since.
Like I had said in a previous thread there were two reasons for our move.
As stated here, the ZI forums have that nifty plugin that allows merges Disqus and forum accounts to a single login/register. I have been looking for something like that for Xenforo but I have only found a single thing...