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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
So what’s the differences between the different softwares, John? Is one more pricey than the other? I’m huge on the old saying “You get what you pay for.” lol.
And I’ll be more than happy to buy more cups of coffee. 
I read through them, but I’m still not understanding their differences. |
Core forum functionality with all of them is basically the same as they all have forums, subforums, threads, posts, private messages, etc.
Some differences are related to how the systems are programmed, so that would not be readily apparent.
More obvious is related to site design, how the site's flow.
Xenforo & Invision are both paid software. The others are free, but some (maybe all of those) still have commercial backing. They give away free in order to promote their software and make money by offering hosting services. Basically hosting companies giving away software in order to gain clients. I prefer hosting myself, though, as it gives more flexibility and options.
Xenforo is unique in that one of the primary developers was also a primary developer of the software we've been using. That likely means Xenforo may be more familiar in how it's designed, how it functions. Also I would expect migrating from our current software to Xenforo to possibly go a little better. Although, it's also possible some other forum software does all of that better despite the Xenforo dev's previous connection to our current software.
Invision, last I checked, has a significnatly larger development team. Also quite a bit more costly compared to Xenforo.
I'll be looking into all of those forum systems much more after I start this project. Definitely want to make sure to use the one that will be best for GC.
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