XenForo
The Truth About MyBB: 270+ Security Flaws, a Failed Rewrite, and a Community That Deserves Better
MyBB was supposed to be the free forum software that could rival the commercial giants. Open source, community-driven, and genuinely well-designed when...
YaBB Today: The Forum Software That Time Forgot (And Why Your Community Deserves Better)
YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) launched in the year 2000. It ran on Perl. It stored every post in a flat text...
The Real Problems With bbPress That Nobody Warns You About
bbPress is installed on over 100,000 WordPress sites. It was built by one of the core WordPress contributors. It has been around...
Why XenForo Wins: The Truth About vBulletin and IP.Board That Nobody Wants to Admit
There is a quiet exodus happening across the forum world. Long-running communities on vBulletin and IP.Board (Invision Community) are packing up and...
XenForo vs Invision Community: An Honest Side-by-Side for 2026
If you’ve been running forums for any length of time, you’ve probably narrowed your shortlist down to two names: XenForo and Invision...
The AI Features Your Forum Should Have, And Why XenForo Has None
Semantic search. Auto-moderation. Translation. Topic summaries. Chat assistant. Your members use AI everywhere else — why not on your forum? wpForo 3.0...
What XenForo Actually Costs You
XenForo's $195 license is just the beginning. 5-year total cost of ownership breakdown: $2,340–$4,350 for self-hosted, $3,240–$5,400 for Cloud. Here's the math.
XenForo vs wpForo + WordPress: A Comparison That Doesn’t Cheat
Side-by-side comparison of XenForo and wpForo + WordPress across cost, AI features, design, SEO, ecosystem, and moderation. Built for forum admins making...
XenForo is Stagnating. Here’s What Forum Owners Are Doing About It.
The development pace has slowed. Prices keep rising. The design looks like 2010. Here's an honest look at where XenForo stands in...