thanks

For the super site admin
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One click (well … may take a few clicks) web installer package for BP

Ability to determine what shows up or is promoted to front page, for example, only promoted blog posts show up in the recent Blogs block

Categories for groups

Easy language changer, good unicode support

For the member-user
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Inbuilt email- importer that lets user (optionally) to invite others at the time of registering

Easy ajax profile comments ( see Orkut) and 1:1 Wall

Tags for everything – profile, group, everything

Photo annotations ( mark or spot-write) on album photos

Forums, Events, and Polls inbuilt for Groups

Social Apps or Gadgets ( all actual social network have this )

I have also submitted my opinion but I think there were features discussed that are not so much actual as some others.
When we think about development of new social network we must understand that no meter what will be released it must be much more better than existed on the market.
I look and found that BP looks nice but there are missing features that are important for the beginning like: Photo Album, Voting for members showing their popularity or voting their pictures, Invite Friends and members from other accounts like GMAL, FACEBOOK and etc. This is all necessary.

At the same time I have one more question. How important is to have a lot of tools as plug-ins when you can include them in final product from the beginning if user do not need this tool he can simply disable it.

Buddypress ups: Too many.

Buddypress downs: 1) No photo gallery plugin with the first release. Are you kidding? It is intended for social. I would love to see future releases packed with image, video, . . . plugins, even if these were in the most basic form.

2) The invite friends importer so far has been a nightmare for me. So, if you guys could work on improving that, it’d be great!

One major problem area is registration. It is currently aimed at the typical web teen/tween, starting with the anonymous ‘username’ and the use of the word User (‘Dear User’) in confirmation emails, which are horribly written overall.

I have to modify the registration process into something that could support a more grown-up members database, so on registration I would need full name, with separate fields for first and last, and several additional profile fields for location, company, job title, etc.

Registration should be as simple as possible. Initially all that is needed is a full name (first + last separate…) + email address. The rest could be moved to a second optional profile fields page after activation.

This excellent plugin make login with email address possible and eliminates the need to have a stupid ‘username’.

But removing the username field from registration requires lots of ugly hacking.

Managing optional profile fields requires lots of ugly hacking.

Getting a real full name in two separate fields for first and last requires lots of ugly hacking.

Editing the activation/welcome email texts requires lots of ugly hacking.

To me these are all essential elements. If customizing the registration process, including email texts, was a little more flexible, Buddypress could dramatically broaden its possible use cases.

And if anyone can help me hacking temporary solutions, please contact me…