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@xspringe You are correct. The BP interface should be designed for the end user. This keys off my peeve that BP is marketing itself as enabling social networking “out of the box”. Yes, it can but not without some tweaking for each specific site application. And I’m not talking about simple template colour choices or layout modifications. If [...]

@Peterverkooijen said: Why would you need forums? What makes forums so great for collaboration? You’re confusing me now. You don’t see the benefit of forums yet you have basically created a forum on your site. Everyone has to think outside of the box because “forums” != bbPress. I’ve spent many many years on many different “forums”, all [...]

@Peterverkooijen based on your setup description, I don’t understand your BP forum complaints. You don’t use forums because you have basically replicated the forum concept in blog posts/comments. The only advantage I see of this setup (without looking in great detail) is the benefit of using the more robust WP commenting system. Fundamentally you…[Read more]

@stwc Agreed – I’m a developer – I can (mostly) make BP do what I want it to. I’m not a community builder because there is really no such thing. As a site owner, I can only offer up tools that I think my site needs to help it become a community. Once a community forms, [...]

@Peterverkooijen said: @stwc, can you answer the question, what makes forums so great for collaboration? What can you do with forums that you can’t do with blog posts + comments? I’ll wade in here (ugh, bad idea?) with one major difference between forums and blog posts. On a typical WP installation, blog posts are written by site [...]

Thanks guys. I figured I would have to do it manually.

As seen in other threads (and this one) I don’t think you can easily define a Social Network. People have different needs and desires when it comes to connecting with other people. Fundamentally, connecting is the only thing we’re all trying to do in one way or another. Buddypress really is the kitchen sink. It [...]

Blah. I’m still having a hard time navigating at the moment which is why I didn’t notice your other thread. That’s sort of a good thing because it’s making me very aware of how I need to make changes to my own BP project.

Not sure if anyone else noticed (sorry, I haven’t gone through the 5 previous pages of this thread) but the “Load More” link/button on the activity page only loads a second page worth of status updates. If you hit “Load More” a second time, it reloads the same set of updates.

On the /support/topics/ index page, it would be nice if there was a way to link to the latest post in the thread.

There’s an errant “a” in the followers template right after the body tag.