Our future with XenForo

[Sean]

Very happy to announce that today i learned that Kier the former lead developer of vBulletin has been working on his own forum software for the last few months called XenForo.

http://xenforo.com/community/

When this is released in the next few months we plan to code all of skins to work with XenForo.

A video of the backend:

[Sean]

Here is some more information grabbed from this post:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads...567/#post-9031

Other Locations
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/XenForo
Twitter: http://twitter.com/XenForo (@XenForo)

Projected Release Date
End of Summer

License
"Commercial License"

Cost
Competitive with IPB and vB (Possible "early adopters" sale)

Detailed Features List

Pages
>Allow you to manage simple content in the node tree
>You have full access to HTML and the entire XenForo template syntax, including some default variables
>You can specify permissions on the page itself or let them inherit from a parent node
>Customizable auto-generated navigation
>Finally, there's some page info in the bottom right, like publishing date and views.
>Example

Relative Timestamps
>Always outputs absolute dates and times, but our Javascript then identifies these instances and converts them into relative dates for the viewing user.
>All date/time instances automatically update as time goes by
>If you load a page with JS disabled, you're going to see the actual date the post was made
>More Information

In-Page Navigation
>Animates a move from the quote to the original message
>More Information

Multi-Page Navigation
>The links that appear when you scroll the gadget are generated with Javascript
>This system is most useful for navigating 50ish pages
>More Information
>Video Demonstration

Quoting Multiple Posts
>You can click the 'reply' link on multiple messages and each of them will deliver their content to the quick reply box
>Video Demonstration
>More Information

Everyone's News Feed
>Everything that all members of the board do is published to the news feed
>More Information

Glimpse of XenForo Template Syntax

     <xen:if hascontent="true">
    <div class="section staffOnline avatarList">
        <div class="secondaryContent">
            <h3>Staff Online Now</h3>
            <ul>
                <xen:contentcheck>
                    <xen:foreach loop="$onlineUsers.records" value="$user">
                        <xen:if is="{$user.is_moderator} OR {$user.is_admin}">
                            <li>
                                <xen:avatar user="$user" size="s" img="true" />
                                <a href="{xen:link members, $user}" class="username">{$user.username}</a>
                                <div class="muted">{xen:helper userTitle, $user}</div>
                            </li>
                        </xen:if>
                    </xen:foreach>
                </xen:contentcheck>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</xen:if>

[Sean]

Also a video of some of the features: http://vimeo.com/13796509