Migrating from XenForo as Developer

021

Hey!

I'm 021, full stack web developer. I have been working with XenForo since 2016. This is what I started my career in web development with and what I sometimes work with to this day. In the beginning, XenForo seemed magical and thoughtful (especially in version 2.0), but over time, I got acquainted with Laravel and front-end frameworks and my quality bar grew. Because of this, working with XenForo became boring and uninteresting for a long time, until I had the time and desire to implement a messenger for the forum. Now I'm looking for new directions for development and Flarum seems promising to me, as it is built on modern technologies - something that most offers on the market lack.

One of the first products I would like to migrate to Flarum is chat and messenger. (Demo link)
Flarum seems the ideal environment to implement this kind of thing. Therefore, I would like to study the demand for a similar product, get to know the community better.

I'd love to meet everyone :3

luceos

021 welcome to the Flarum community and much respect for your growth as a developer. Your suggested feature is much sought after here, so I think it will bring in a lot of attention.

GreXXL

021 welcome - I think there is great demand for a private messaging / real-time messaging feature for Flarum. You will find a lot of discussions and alsoProposals for this. I agree that Flarum is a great framework to integrate/implement on.

Darkle

021 What great news, welcome! I've come across your XenForo work a few times, excellent work by the way. As a XenForo add-on developer I can imagine that you're already looking at Flarum as a sandbox full of possibilities and with a very well thought out developer experience, the difference to XenForo in this sense is quite huge.

Yeah, no doubt the chat/dm function for Flarum is something the community has been asking for for a long time, as you may know Flarum has a very simplified core philosophy, so there is no integrated system in core for direct messaging as it happens in XenForo with "Conversations", so even a simple DM system would be very successful among the community, I'm sure you won't lack for pending eyes.

SychO

Welcome, Feel free to hop on the discord server if you need any help!

OfficialAudite

Welcome to flarum! You will like it here 🙂

dragsugur

welcome welcome,
a private message system like instagram, or other modern forums is highly needed and demanded by flarum users. (it doesnt even have to be real time). you might be the one 🙂

StarbucksWifi

Good to see you here @021. I guess my name suggests who I am on the XF Forum.