[Grover]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Ok so a conversation is displayed like a thread, yes, so you can follow it much more easy than PMs. But you can also invite people into the conversation, so they can read it from the start. And then remove them from it if you want. You can also specify the permissions whether people invited into the conversation are then able to invite other people.
Beyond this, there will be the ability to report conversation messages to the moderators to be handled by the reported message system.

It is just amazing, the whole of XenForo.

I have been posting on XenForo since the introduction 2 few weeks ago and it is just simply addictive. Like somebody else pointed out already above... I haven't had such a pleasurable experience at/in any forum-powered website in... I don't know how long.

--------------- Added 15 Aug 2010 at 11:06 ---------------

Okay... repost.

What I tried to say is this: It is just amazing, the whole of XenForo. This is what a lot of customers have been expecting from vBulletin 4. But things went quite different...

I have been posting on XenForo since the introduction 2 few weeks ago and it is just simply addictive. Like somebody else pointed out already above... I haven't had such a pleasurable experience at/in any forum-powered website in... I don't know how long. As a loyal enthusiast promoter and very active community member of vBulletin (I run one of the most successful vBulletin powered websites in The Netherlands (5 million hits per month and counting) I was a big, big fan of the product until after the 3.8 series (let's say it in those words then ).

I think one of the KEY factors in XenForo's success will be the outstanding UI/UX. What I loved about the vBulletin 3 series was it's fantastic UI/UX (for that time) and you see the same quality now appearing in XenForo. Most of my (paying) customer suggestions to vBulletin 4 the last couple of 9 months were aimed at the lack of quality concerning the UI/UX of that product. I believe it's fair to say that it is just... well... just take a good look at XenForo to see what a good UI/UX is all about.

I strongly believe the UI/UX is an important key element, I would even say vital for the success of any software-product nowadays. I know not everybody sees it that way (remember the success of MySpace for example?), but for me it is KEY in deciding what software platform is the best for my community website. This was always vBulletin 3.x

And the developers behind XenForo understand this. They have the same vision and apply pixel-perfection when it comes to the UI. When you work with XenForo you can just see and feel in no-time that so much thought and care has been put into the whole UI/UX. This - IMHO- sets XenForo completely apart from any other major forum product available on todays internet market. Again, I tried very hard to offer all kinds of UI suggestions in the last 9 months to the product I have once loved so much, but it just wasn't picked up. I won't share how everything felt for me after the 'Gold' version was released, because I am not alone in this by now and this thread should be about XenForo as I've understood.

So, when I saw XenForo and used it for a few hours I was almost immediately sold. Why? Because... it literally solves ALL of the many, many, many UI/UX issues I saw and experienced and reported in the new version of vBulletin. Really. Solved. So it is very simple: should I spend more and more and more of my free (!) time trying to offer suggestions/ideas/feedback/bugreports to improve a product without seeing much results or should I go for a fresh new product that provides us with an outstanding fresh, innovate, intuitive userfriendly UI/UX immediately?

Also it is clear the development team behind XenForo have a strong vision when it comes to the essential value of the UI/UX of their product, so for now and in the future we can be sure the frontend will be in good hands and will keep being delivered to us in this outstanding professional quality.

Mind you, we only know the frontend by now and haven't seen the backend of XenForo. But, if the backend is as good as the frontend, then XenForo will become a serious alternative for people to look at who are not happy anymore with their current platform or the future of it. And I predict this will be a lot of people.

Exciting times. Very curious to find out what 2010/2011/2012 will bring in the world of forumsoftware!