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I can see removing/demoting staff that does not participate, especially if paid. But for users, a user account does not take up that much space in the database so I personally see no reason to be "pruning" them.
But again... each admin does as they deem necessary for their site. I just don't...
I'm not so sure about that. As I pointed out, a lot of folks hit the resources on my site. And I guess because other sites force you to be a member to access resources on those sites they think theymust do the same on my site.
Never mind that the first time you go to the resources link you see...
They can run one... but unless it has hard to find content, odds are that there are not going to be masses flocking to them that most new admins hope for.
But they need to have reasonable expectations as to the limitations of a site based around posts.
For those users that just want to find a...
Over the last several years the Xenforo developers have pretty much ignored any major advancements/improvements in XFMG, XFRM or XFES. Guess they have a hard enough time with just the core forum offering and their SaaS keeping them busy.
But they did, as I mentioned, make some improvements in...
This has been a LONG pet peeve of mine - but more based upon content discovery and how some scripts restrict some of its strongest feature(s) from use of it.
An example, custom fields in use by Xenforo. It's been asked for for years that they enable the discovery of custom fields... and for...
And this is a big issue. Sadly, the "forum is the best" defenders go out of their way to try to make out like what is wanted is for the forum format to become social media like FB/X/BlueSky/Truth Social. When in reality, what is usually asked for is for the forum script developers to look at...
Until forums can advance into the era of 2025 and offer users what they are used to on other platforms.. not gonna happen.
The same "hope" was there with BBS sites when the internet started becoming a thing. Even those BBS scripts that looked forward and offered certain internet access...
That's why I think, especially in the open source arena, Discourse and NodeBB have a higher chance of maintaining relevance since they are constantly updating it and trying to find different boundaries to work towards.
Discourse in several ways offers more than Xenforo, Invision, Woltlab or...
Slow process to innovate or adopt new technology or get timely updates released that bring something to the end users that is now the "norm". When a script developer group (paid or open source) stagnates it impacts the end users of their product.
The fun is how any app will handle add-ons, especially those that are more extensive than just tweaks to the base offering..
I'm sure it can be done, but it would require a close integration and maybe even 1st party add-on to the scripts to provide the core for it.
This IS one of the big issues that I have. And I readily recognize that fact and realize that for others it is a very acceptable solution.
Not everyone has the Linux/Server experience I am blessed with and were not exposed to Linux in it's early release form nor are idiots that pursue those...
Just want to comment.. I really appreciate how you are emphasizing on your site the powers that the Invision script offers.
Granted.. those that choose self-hosting do not have full use of that... but the core site is what all can currently have.
My only big issue (and which you and any others...
Not to brag.. but take a glance at my astro site.. you can see how there are many 3rd party add-ons that can benefit a niche.. and there is even the ability to do so without using a 3rd party add-on but a page node in XF.
Or
https://astrowhat.com/pages/weather_map/
or...
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