XenForo has revoked our license

I'm pretty sure the way it works is that the ongoing maintenance contract is over, so Null is not entitled to further updates or bugfixes. Whatever the latest version available as of his cancellation is what he has permanent-ish rights to in perpetuity. Legal? Probably. Stupid? Incredibly
 
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The handsome tard said:
The last few years are evidence that if you autistically screech loud enough (and happens to be part of the "right side of history"), you can make anyone bend the knee eventually.
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I can't decide if it's ironic or pointed or just super fucking annoying that THIS is the site that has the receipts proving that 99% of trannies are insane, penniless e-beggars. Sure there's the odd tranny billionaire like Pritzker, which helped with big institutional fakery and the cucking of the left wing, but the vast majority are unpleasant, powerless grifters. The worst they might do is turn up outside your door to protest in an adult diaper and demand to be called ma'am. More likely they will call you a mean name on twitter because it's too much effort to leave the house and they can't afford the bus fare.
 
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My advice--fork the codebase you have. It's solid enough. Do not waste your time trying to rebuild Xenforo in Rust, that will NEVER work out. NEVER. You can be a platform developer or a platform, but not both. You will get so bogged down into the nitty gritty that you will lose sight of what you are doing. My understanding is that your license covers your current usage of the product, so just move on.
 
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Windows Error 98 said:
I’m genuinely curious. What other forums are even approaching the activity of the farms? SA has been slowly dying for nearly a decade (much like its creator) but I genuinely cannot think of any other mid-large forums that survived past Reddit.
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Incels.co and ResetEra if we count XenForo only, not even joking. But I'll assume they both handle much less media files.

EDIT: forgot about XDA-Developers, it does seem it's using XenForo. Would assume it's likely the largest one on this engine.
 
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Spergichu said:
I can't tell if Vordrak is too retarded to understand the Streisand Effect, or he does and he wanted the increased attention. Surely he had to know that Null would find out it was him that reported the site.
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He gloated about it on his blog like he always does so its obvious he wasn't trying to hide this "attack".
 
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This sounds like another entry to go into "Where the Sidewalk Ends." It is incredible how difficult it is to stay alive in an era long gone, where shitposting and freedom of speech were prevalent forces on the Internet. There will always be speech I'm uncomfortable with repeating on this forum, but freedom of speech is a fundamental right. I hate that people on the supposed same side of the political spectrum as me are weaponizing against that right. Freedom of speech is important in exchanging ideas and growing outside of your shell, but so many people take opposing opinions as an attack on their character.

As a user that does not have the experience or skill set to help Null, it is disheartening to have limited options to support the forum. In my dream world, the software meant to keep everything running would be open source so that people who also share this view can help shoulder the burden rather than leaving it for a handful of people. I can't imagine the difficulty of being the face of legal threats (most frivolous), criticism for the fact that you host a free speech forum, and deal with managing the back end.

The loss of XenForo's license does not sound like a defeat, but rather something Null was working on anyway since he's already had to modify the framework so much. However, it's another sidestep in the road with many potholes and paths that have barely been traveled.
 
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TheBallPit said:
Isn't this considered some manner of breach of contract with the enduser? What justification did the XenForo PTB cook up to revoke Null's license? Just because ONE individual complained about <something> about the site? If this license revocation sticks, isn't Null due a refund? WTF?
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He might be due (or have) a refund but every user agreement says they can yoink the service. And even if they don't explicitly, they always can. Believe it or not one of the primary tenets of contract law is "no slavery" so you never actually have to keep providing a service; refunds are basically the limit of it.
 
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This fucking activate windows shit is in every modern thing, at least they don't lock features behind it for xenoforo aside from update shit I assume
Poe the Sheep said:
Using the trannies programming language of choice. Null, you got something you want to tell us?
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This is just the progression after the "linux voice incident".
 
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