BuddyPress

just recognized the Following / Followers at testbp.org

Looks great on the my first check !

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Another thing:
I have to say I would prefer a WPMU-install at testbp.org , so I can compare a Standard-BP-install with my own website (which is running WPMU).
Can you set-up a testbp.org for WPMU and another one for Single-WP ?
Having testbp.org as a Single-WP-install is somehow limiting for WPMU-users (webmasters).

Thanks a lot !

Erich

Andy moved testbp.org over to standard WP because the majority of new BP users are likely to be standard WP users:

http://testbp.org/activity/p/73263/

You could probably use another test install that other developers have setup such as Marius Ooms (http://sandbox.ywamcloud.com/) or David Cartwright (http://namoo.co.uk/). Though their BP installs might not be running the latest trunk version like testbp.org is.

You could always create your own test environment locally as well!

WPMU is really gone in a few months or less…afaik WP3.0 is pretty much on track.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/3.0

Best just wait and spend energy researching new functionality for you to enable Multi Sites in WP 3.0.

Is this now replacing two-way friend connections?

when are we getting access to following/follower setup? I like it better!

No, it’s an additional plugin. I’d expect it to be released sometime this week.

Awesome, very excited!

glad if it’s in addition not a replacement*…because it’s completely different dynamic depending on what you set out for a community. @djpaul will the plugin replace friends once activated or will it be in addition to? I’m thinking about and working on having both options, to friend and then be able to follow specific activities even beyond member activity such as groups, blogs, links, images, topic, searchkeyword….so its not follow member, it’s follow X activity and categorize my followings. anyway just what i’m thinking as how i’d try to use it …either way can’t wait to test it out.

So direct message rules how do they work with followers following? I guess if someone is following you, you can DM them? What about if you have both friends and followers following enabled?

Does it work like if you friends with someone you can dm them and also if someone is following you you can dm them?

I’m also debating using both here… but not sure on what the point would be really other than an extra name of ‘friends’

hmm was a little off on that, it seems by default you can send direct messages to anyone regardless of whether or not they are friends (can you easily block people from sending you messages? seems like that would have to be standard) Can you block people from following you?

So I guess in order to see someones profile though they have to follow you back?

@andy
I am following actually a few people here at buddypress.org , but I do not receive e-mail-notifications on updates of those people I am following.
So what is the point of following someone at buddypress.org ?

another issue:

when I click on “edit” of my previous post, then the @andy gets converted to the follwing HTML-code:

a href=’http://buddypress.org/community/members/andy/’ rel=’nofollow’>@andy</a

This is sure very cool feature. Since most people already familiar with this Follow method in Twitter and other sites..

Is this down-loadable anywhere?

This question has been asked many times.
The plugin will be released simultaneously when BP 1.2.4 comes out.