Hello everyone,
Just a quick update on the process for determining where we want to go with these forums platform wise.
Firstly, thank you to everyone who voted on the poll, it was very helpful and was a big part of our discussions around what we want to do. For now we have not decided if we are going to move away from vBulletin or not, but we have decided to pilot both Discourse and XenForo.
There are pros and cons to both platforms and we feel that their feature sets are similar enough that they are worth digging deeper into them and giving them a try. So at some point in the coming months we will be announcing an open beta on both platforms and will be opening them up to the community to jump into and really give them a test drive, try to break them and just see how they work for us. So stay tuned for more info on that.
After the two platforms have been thoroughly vetted, we put up another poll to see if the people have changed their minds after trying them out, and only then will the decision to move or not be made.
Just a quick update on the process for determining where we want to go with these forums platform wise.
Firstly, thank you to everyone who voted on the poll, it was very helpful and was a big part of our discussions around what we want to do. For now we have not decided if we are going to move away from vBulletin or not, but we have decided to pilot both Discourse and XenForo.
There are pros and cons to both platforms and we feel that their feature sets are similar enough that they are worth digging deeper into them and giving them a try. So at some point in the coming months we will be announcing an open beta on both platforms and will be opening them up to the community to jump into and really give them a test drive, try to break them and just see how they work for us. So stay tuned for more info on that.
After the two platforms have been thoroughly vetted, we put up another poll to see if the people have changed their minds after trying them out, and only then will the decision to move or not be made.