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but if you decide not to renew their subscription along with core xenforo package, you would have to pay the full price the next time you decide to use them. it basically is removed from your license.

about your primary question... xenforo article thread type works well. especially if your primary focus is the forum component of xenforo. if xenforo is to support your blog/cms component, i would still recommend looking into wordpress as the cms/blog component. it just does better in terms of google indexing and ranking.