XenForo

[CAKE99]

For forum software, I would like to suggest XenForo as a replacement for IPS.

I use 2 other forums that use XenForo, they both work great.

XenForo:

 

Pros:

BBCode!

Users can switch forum themes,

"Social Groups", small user run subforums, the founder of SGs can set users as Social Group Moderators, SG Mods can only do stuff to a SG they are a mod on, I run 2 SGs on a forum that uses XenForo,

A signature system where users can put spoilers in the signature that can open to have loads of stuff,

Nameable spoilers!

From the research I've done, XenForo seems to be cheaper than IPS,

 

Cons:

There will be a bit of downtime for changing the software 

No custom user titles, but there are small banners below your name that you can choose from,

Literally nothing else.

 

IPS:

Pros:

I can't think of anything.

 

Cons:

Literally everything.

 

 

For the reasons I added there, XenForo is obviously better 

Edited July 12, 2016 by CAKE99

[KasperVld]

Hi Cake99,

We're actually pleased with IPS. It's fast and stable, and provides us with everything we need. Not to mention the fact that a forum software change is a huge operation on a forum this size. Your list of pros and cons is interesting, and a bit incomplete. For example, IPS also allows users to switch forum themes, but we only have the one theme installed. Social groups is something we used to have on vBulletin, but we found that it both fragmented the community and lead to all sorts of difficult issues with moderation, so we decided to stop using them years ago. I'm also pretty sure you can use spoilers in your signatures here. Do mind though that we've hardcoded a maximum height of 120 pixels for any one signature into the forum theme.