What's Missing?

[Shawn Gossman]

With all the forum software available, what is missing from all of them?

Forums are very niche. No one is going out of their way to make one. Could it be because something is missing?

What do you think?

 

[Cpvr]

People that want to branch away from social media will actually make forums, so they’ll make a forum.

I think we’ll see a lot more forums being created in the near future.

Connecting to other forums with the use of the same username is something that I think is missing, especially since you have to make a new account per forum.

 

[casportpony]

Connecting to other forums with the use of the same username is something that I think is missing, especially since you have to make a new account per forum.

I use the same username on all forums.

 

[Cpvr]

I use the same username on all forums.

Of course, but wouldn’t it better if there was a central log in system for all forums?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Of course, but wouldn’t it better if there was a central log in system for all forums?

There used to be a guy on SMF would want a global quote feature where you could quote from any forum and the suggestion was a lot like this one. I can't remember his name, but he was belligerent about it, and no one would take him serious about it.

I'm not against the idea but I don't know how it could be done without forum owners losing some control over their communities. It would take something like old-school Tapatalk and we all know what the drama is with Tapatalk haha

 

[Cpvr]

There used to be a guy on SMF would want a global quote feature where you could quote from any forum and the suggestion was a lot like this one. I can't remember his name, but he was belligerent about it, and no one would take him serious about it.

I'm not against the idea but I don't know how it could be done without forum owners losing some control over their communities. It would take something like old-school Tapatalk and we all know what the drama is with Tapatalk haha

I wouldn’t necessarily go the route of Tapatalk, but an Outh system where you can login directly with your main xenforo account on various forums.

Just like how you can create accounts using your facebook account or Google account using the connected accounts feature.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I wouldn’t necessarily go the route of Tapatalk, but an Outh system where you can login directly with your main xenforo account on various forums.

Just like how you can create accounts using your facebook account or Google account using the connected accounts feature.

Okay, that makes sense.

Just kind of keep it optional, like the social connects.

Man! I'm surprised this doesn't exist to be honest. Login from your XF accounts makes perfect sense!