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Originally Posted by SecondV

Looks like AVForums plans to adopt it when it's released.

Definitely we are as soon as it has all the modifications we need. And it's a lot.
However, XF has been coded in such a way that plugins will be very easy to create. I have seen a demo and it's laughably easy.
At the same time is is very feature rich.
Hardly surprising when you have the world's most qualified forum developers using the latest coding techniques to start from scratch. And they have gone back to the drawing board. For example, there are no private messages, but instead private conversions which you can invite other people to view.
The permissions system has been built from scratch to cater for the difficulties of private forums and banned users.
And Ajax has been used to the maximum to do things like discussion watching, message liking, spam killing etc. in nicely animated overlay popups. Oh and their spam killer has an undo button! And you can scroll the page nav left and right (with a nice animation) to get to the page you want.

The upgrade from vB to XF will create 301 redirects and passwords will transfer seamlessly.

I have been very sad at the way IB have been destroying vBulletin and our business and the livelihoods of several people depend upon the forum software we use, so the strategic decision on what direction to take has not been taken lightly.
We're with vBulletin probably for the next six months at least.
But the world of forum software has moved on and vB has been well and truly left behind.

Apologies - I've raved! It's easily done!