We will be setting up a forum soon.
I was going to run XenForo on it, but
it's gotten so expensive to purchase all the add-ons that I was
contemplating for use since the script itself is so bare-bones comparied to
other paid scripts that I am looking at alternative solutions.
Honestly... for what it costs to get XenForo to the equivalent of other
paid forum script providers, I have to wonder why anyone would contemplate
it currently. The other paid scripts offer so much more in their base core
offering than XenForo does. The XenForo developers are HEAVILY reliant upon
outside 3rd party developers (which regularly disappear) to bring their script up to any quality
ability, and they are "loud and proud" on the fact that they are simply a
"base" forum provider.
I would gladly use Invision Community.. but they have already warned that
after this next version they probably won't support their current
self-hosted script. With the number of sites I run (at no cost for access)
an SaaS solution is a no-go, which is what their future game plan apparently
is.
So we are still evaluating what to use. We really want to use a PHP
based script as to do otherwise will realistically result in having to set
up another server if it's not PHP based.