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I was doing some testing with XenForo & IP.Board and jesus, everything feels like a downgrade when using other plugins other than the DBTECH ones!
I can't believe the only reason I can't upgrade my forums to another software is because of DBTECH Plugins, I hate you so much for this!

I think Dbtech would own up the XenForo market at this stage since no plugins there can match the quality of what you guys make.
Did I mention the amount of features you guys offer for each plugin?
I know you guys tried before and how hateful the community was, but I truly think they would welcome you guys back with open arms because their addon community truly needs someone like Dbtech to push them on the next stage. I honestly don't think vB5 will be profitable at this stage because the product feels somewhat far from gold standard.

In about a year I've received over $4,588.00 in donations using your plugin alone, in 3+ years with AWCoding software I've earned around 9.5k
Based on the trajectory I am way ahead of schedule!

Maybe someday Dbtech will create plugins so this way they can be easily be ported over to other forum software without major re-writes.

I can guarantee you I will see a 200% decrease in donations if I were to switch to a different donation system plugin.
 
I would also love it if we could create wrappers to make porting easily. Sadly Fillip H. has informed me in the past that the huge differences in coding needed (thanks MVC :() makes that more or less impossible.

We'll see how vB5 turns out, i'm not anticipating really making money on vB5 for a year or so to be honest - similar situation to the vB4 launch.
 
yes i would like to know too your secret to success ..

just curious why would you want to go to a different forum XenForo board to me and like you said lacks the plugins and really without that is not that good this is my opinion only ..

are your members aware you want to switch and is that something that they want ....
 
Wow that is quite a racket you got there. What is your secret to success?

yes i would like to know too your secret to success ..

just curious why would you want to go to a different forum XenForo board to me and like you said lacks the plugins and really without that is not that good this is my opinion only ..

are your members aware you want to switch and is that something that they want ....

There is no secret, we push our users to make donations every month to help cover our web server and game server costs.
We run a squad based environment, donation goals are important and all members that joined my squad know their expectations about helping out on a monthly basis to help pay for the servers.

We give recognition to the donors by increasing their PM Box size, Also an award that distinguishes them from other users on the forums and so on...

See how the donation system is setup on my website @ http://www.47r-squad.com

After much thought we are going to stay with vBulletin at this stage, there is too much to lose if we convert to either XenForo or IPB, maybe in the future if DBTECH ever considers those two as viable options down the road.
Cosmic thanks for the detailed reply.
 
yes i would like to know too your secret to success ..

just curious why would you want to go to a different forum XenForo board to me and like you said lacks the plugins and really without that is not that good this is my opinion only ..

are your members aware you want to switch and is that something that they want ....

Wow that is quite a racket you got there. What is your secret to success?

Also auto PM donation reminder is a good thing to have enabled, so this means if a user donated one month, they will receive another notice in 30 days that it has been a month since their last contribution.

Creating a separate section on the forums to display donors is nice too, a lot of people like to be recognized on a monthly basis that they have donated. See: Donations
 
Also auto PM donation reminder is a good thing to have enabled, so this means if a user donated one month, they will receive another notice in 30 days that it has been a month since their last contribution.
How do you send auto reminder PM's?
 
How do you send auto reminder PM's?

Actually nvm, that feature is not available for DBTECH, I thought it was implemented, but I think I am wrong on that part. AWCoding use to offer that option.
Ozzy47, is this something that you might be able to add for future versions?

Back to topic, XenForo is nice, but it feels there is a lot of work to do to make things acceptable.
 
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