Have they influenced your decisions significantly? Do you own or have owned the software? Does anyone plan to?
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Given some of these cons, I'm not convinced to move from XenForo, but I'm sure that Invision is excellent software.CONS
- Support for self-hosted clients is forum-based and Staff is only around during business hours. If you screw up your site after hours, you may have to wait until the next day until someone reads your pleas for help.
- Upfront Cost is expensive, but you get everything. And it's not really that far off from WoltLab or Xenforo if you buy their everything packages too.
- Renewal fees for self-hosted annual licenses are a bit high.
- Licenses not renewed at least every 2 years cannot be renewed at all.
The main differences are the cost of renewal and that even if you skip a year of license renewal, you must renew it the following year or the option is gone (you can keep using the existing software though). This means you are dropping at least $199 every 24 months.Given some of these cons, I'm not convinced to move from XenForo, but I'm sure that Invision is excellent software.
In fact, for me, the renewal fees turn out to be cheaper. But down the plug, it's yearly payment now were before it's 6 months.
- Support for self-hosted clients is forum-based and Staff is only around during business hours. If you screw up your site after hours, you may have to wait until the next day until someone reads your pleas for help.
- Upfront Cost is expensive, but you get everything. And it's not really that far off from WoltLab or Xenforo if you buy their everything packages too.
- Renewal fees for self-hosted annual licenses are a bit high.
- Licenses not renewed at least every 2 years cannot be renewed at all.
Yeah, I had all software parts from blogs and now I blogs LOL I have not even installed the blogs yet and not even needed themYes, Invision lowered my renewal costs as well. I am paying less than before, and I now have all the entire suite.
Actually, even the upfront costs for the entire suite was sliced dramatically. The only real change is you can't order a la carte anymore. Even if you just want Forums, you get Blogs, Commerce, Downloads, Gallery, and Pages whether you wanted them or not.
I have not even installed the blogs yet and not even needed them
Yeah, it might be a good idea to buy XF during Black Friday etc..Yes, there's a sale on at the moment.
But that's also the entry price, not an annual price, which is somewhere nearer $60 I think? (And you don't have to stay renewed unless you want patches.)
Unlike Invision, who now insist you renew at least once every couple of years.
They might actually get more profit by sales occasionally, considering the price. It's about getting way more people to buy a cheaper product than a few people buying an expensive one.They don't usually have a Black Friday sale. I think this sale is the first time they ever did such a thing, possibly because of the delays in 2.3.
But why would you buy such an inferior product?vBulletin has a sale going on as well
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