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We can update the search to not have a search limit, but that will cost $50, plus $10 per year thereafter. That will bring our Xenforo yearly cost alone up to $80, plus server costs. It's doable if enough people donate when we turn the facility on.

There is an alternative - we add the facility to tag posts and use hashtags. We had tags before, and nobody bothered to use them - so the success of that option is entirely down to users correctly tagging posts.

 

Much appreciated. I think we spent close to $1,000 getting the site back online. Not counting time spent on it, which we don't charge for, of course.

With 20,000 users, it's a shame that it nearly always boils down to the same few giving (relatively) large donations. If 1% of our user base donated $1 each, that would earn double your generous donation. We shouldn't have to bribe users to donate, we don't want to introduce ads and it's a shame that some use the forums as free advertising for their sales without donating a penny... but we allow them to continue to do so as we're not about telling people they MUST donate.

Forums are nearly always used to make money. If they're not, they use phpBB - and take the consequences. Whether it's a support forum (and good support keeps people buying your products) or a community, they invariably have ads, referral links, paid upgrades or tout merchandise that equal revenue.

Whilst I agree that some add-ons for Xenforo are quite expensive, those we consider are nowhere near as bad as some. That said, would you spend months writing an add-on that thousands of people will use, taking up your time that you could be using to make money, without charging for it? Likewise, how much would you expect a custom add-on to cost? $50 is probably an hour's work to most programmers. And it's probably the better option - because I guarantee most users won't bother to take 10 more seconds to tag their posts. And I don't fancy tagging nearly 50,000 old posts! lol.

Please see the rules:

Please don't suggest piracy. We don't advocate such behaviour here. Someone worked long and hard to code those add-ons - they deserve to be paid.

As I said, the only other way is tags, but nobody bothered to use tags on the old forum and they were in place for a good three years.

 

Open source is programmers doing it for free. It's also popular and a good target for hackers - hence phpBB isn't a great solution.

You're welcome to write your own add-ins, of course. Again, that means having the time and knowledge to do that - and if you have that, you're probably doing it for money for clients already.

I don't see what permission you'd need. People do unboxing videos all the time. You're simply reviewing a product that happens to not be for sale any more. Anyway... Vimeo? Although they've gone down the paid account route now :\