Funny. I work with quite a lot of forum owners - I've heard nothing but positive feedback since xenForo plopped on the scene... Well - I've heard folks complain that the featureset is sparse - but that's to be expected with a brandnew forum software. Besides - there's the community of coders who share added functionality.

As for offering better: The hate vB license holders have for the 4.x series vBulletin is thicker than rotten butter. IPB is better in terms of customer satisfaction. xF has a growing memberbase - the bulk of them (I'd say at least 90%) have voiced nothing but appraisal for to Kier and the xenForo team.

You only need to browse http://xenforo.com/community/ - register and participate in a couple of threads there and you'll see that in terms of innovation and "newness" -- xF has both vB and IPB beat. That's my opinion anyway - despite the limited themes. Besides - a forum should have its own custom theme anyway...

Okay... I'm rambling... I truly didn't mean to turn this into a "the forum software I like is better than yours!" type of argument - Simply wanted to make a suggestion which I feel is valid...

J.

btw - your profile homepage links to http://wnation.org/