Add to ChromeWhen comparing XenForo vs ElkArte, the Slant community recommends ElkArte for most people. In the question“What are the best web forum software packages?” ElkArte is ranked 4th while XenForo is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose ElkArte is:
It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Stable
Good stability and functionality.
Pro Fast
Works really fast.
Pro Lots of styles and extensions avaible
Pro Extensible
XenForo is built to be the most extensible and flexible community software ever.
Pro Stable, well written, developed by the guys who once made VBulletin 3.x the best commercial forum software at the time
Price is only $140, one of the "cons" claims it runs up to $610 if you by all t he bells & whistles, but scarcely anyone pays more than $140
Pro Open Source
It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.
Pro Responsive design
ElkArte comes out of the box with two responsive styles.
Pro Notification centre
ElkArte has a notification center where you can see mentions, likes, quoted messages and other alerts, all included into the core of the software.
Pro Integrated video embedding
Integrated video embedding for YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion.
Pro Improved Anti Spam measures
Elkarte has BadBehaviour and other measures included into the core to protect your forum from spammers.
Pro Easy to install
Cons
Con Expensive
140$ for simple use, price can reach 610$ for complete system and service.
Con Unique SQL system
Only MySQL system.
Con Closed source
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