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I'm familiar with Xenforo from a forum that changed from vbulletin. I personally prefer vbulletin for simple reasons, I'm old school and liked the friends listed in profiles with avatars, Xenforo just has followers. Avatars in VB are nice and large as they are here, the other software has smaller round avatars, not as nice, IMO. Blogs weren't part of XF, so groups and blogs were gone after the change. There were some good things, seemed to be faster, easier to upload larger photos, videos showed on forum in Full Screen (which I love), forum easier to use on smartphone, etc.
Private messages are called conversations, and other members can be invited to join in them if desired. Moderation is easier, if a spammer joins, they can be identified easily and their content and account can be deleted in one click. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you get the hang of how to do things differently like multi-quote, upload photos, embed videos, it becomes second nature. No problems with slow loads or lags like experienced sometimes with vbulletin.
Overall, I think it is more modern and needed to keep up with a very active board like this. Vbulletin is becoming a dinosaur, like Internet Explorer for browsers. I'm really a technophobe, was late to start using computers and never had a geek around for any advice, but even I was okay with the change. Good luck to the admin here....good move!
Private messages are called conversations, and other members can be invited to join in them if desired. Moderation is easier, if a spammer joins, they can be identified easily and their content and account can be deleted in one click. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you get the hang of how to do things differently like multi-quote, upload photos, embed videos, it becomes second nature. No problems with slow loads or lags like experienced sometimes with vbulletin.
Overall, I think it is more modern and needed to keep up with a very active board like this. Vbulletin is becoming a dinosaur, like Internet Explorer for browsers. I'm really a technophobe, was late to start using computers and never had a geek around for any advice, but even I was okay with the change. Good luck to the admin here....good move!