[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 3 days, 1 hour ago]

most people get this functionality by installing a membership plugin like S2

there are many more, just do a search for membership plugin wordpress in the official plugin repository or google

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 10 hours ago]

either I’m “moving too fast” or posting a “duplicate message” or it won’t tell me anything, no error messages but it won’t post my msg!

very very frustrating, never had this issue with the forum, no idea WTF is going on had to break my msg into sections for it to post!

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 10 hours ago]

for the best hosting options, check out webhostingtalk forums and either look for the hosting offers or put up your own needs and get bids from hosts

with the help of a developer you can also go with digitalocean which is a really good up and coming host

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 10 hours ago]

but aren’t you putting the cart before the horse? I mean, when you grow to that size you can then re-evaluate your hosting options and move, if necessary to a better one

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 10 hours ago]

sounds like you need a developer or coder to help you, either post here on the job board or try go to a freelance site like odesk, freelancer, etc. to find someone to help you

to answer your Q: yes, with proper optimization and caching, a WP+BP site can grow to a huge base on shared hosting, it is possible

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 10 hours ago]

very strange, it won’t let me post!

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 5 days, 19 hours ago]

@ubernaut I think the only place the latest is tested is http://testbp.org/ but someone correct me if I’m wrong!

ps thank you to the dev team for the new beta!

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 6 days ago]

@bphelp thanks for your feedback, the site isn’t mine, just thought others might benefit

speaking of spam, what do you think of the sandbox idea I shared here?
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/idea-stopping-spammers-with-sandbox/

since you have the knowledge and experience writing plugins, can you comment on how feasible it is? could you write it?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 week, 1 day ago]

Thanks @derdzi – can someone please confirm this? also, can you share it with the Yoast SEO wordpress forum so they can respond?

http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 week, 3 days ago]

@ubernaut the scenario you outline is possible. that I can agree with. but I don’t think any reasonable person would respond by ‘leave never to return the interesting but apparently broken site’ if they didn’t immediately see their friend on the site.

to clarify, the (new) member would be shown and included in the membership directory – if there is one – but their activity would not be for a short time, say 1 day, assuming the admin are active and flag or approve users immediately upon the new user having some activity to flag or approve in the first place

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 week, 3 days ago]

@shanebp the very nature of the functionality is that it is *not* explained, the user doesn’t know they are in a sandbox! (like a user being ‘shadow banned’) otherwise the benefit that this would confer is totally erased.

please explain why would this result in a flurry of support submissions? the new user sees their own activity being reflected on the site, for what reason would they ask for help? they write, comment, etc and it is shown to them on the site as normal, so nothing is wrong as far as they are concerned. except it is only shown to them, not everyone (until the admin approves them and removes them from the sandbox)

having said that, I do appreciate your feedback and criticism, that is why I shared the idea in the first place, to get some reaction and ideas so we know if this is feasible and perhaps to improve upon the original idea

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 week, 3 days ago]

@bphelp thanks, I’ll take a look at that plugin but it lacks this specific functionality as you already mentioned

@shanebp how is this ‘too complicated’? I also like using the community to flag spam but that only finds spam after the fact, what if you could ID spammers *before*? wouldn’t that be even more valuable? or why not both?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 week, 6 days ago]

http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

a theme is a completely different thing than bbpress or buddypress. the theme gives the ‘look’ the bbpress and/or buddypress plugins give the functionality

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 2 weeks, 4 days ago]

@ubernaut and others, re spam, I would appreciate hearing from the more experienced dev and web masters about the pros and cons of a private membership site.

By not allowing just anyone to become a member you automatically arrest spam. Of course, you also impede your growth because legitimate users can’t join.

One way to get around this is to use the great invite anyone plugin and have the original number of ‘seed’ members invite their friends and their friends invite their friends and so on.

Limited but organic growth in members and a total elimination of spam!

What do you guys think?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 2 weeks, 4 days ago]

I like your enthusiasm but it seems you’re getting a bit ahead of yourself. The trac for 1.8 has been on 100 active and outstanding tickets for weeks on end now and there is no discussion of 1.9 anywhere.

But as long as we’re throwing out ideas for the upcoming, I’d like to vote for throttling as discussed here:

http://buddypress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-limit-friend-requests-to-avoid-spam

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 2 weeks, 6 days ago]

take a look at cubepoints: http://wordpress.org/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/

http://store.slyspyder.com/free-cubepoints-plugins-modules/

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 3 weeks, 4 days ago]

@patricksaad Thank you! Can it also be added for comments? friend requests, activity, etc. we know bbpress has it so everything else other than forum posts (via bbpress) would be helpful to have throttling

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 3 weeks, 4 days ago]

could the mods install this so we can flat spam like this?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-moderation/

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 3 weeks, 4 days ago]

@chouf1 I believe patrick’s comment on that ticket is relevant:

“The function bp_core_check_for_flood in bbp-core-moderation.php is not hooked to anything. No flood control on activity page.”

@patricksaad could you pls submit a patch to trac?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 4 weeks ago]

yes it is right in the codex: http://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

but I don’t think BP has it

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

This is a great idea and frankly I’m surprised that it has not been included already. And not just for friend requests but for pretty much all activity on the site: comments, forum posts, etc.

As long as you limit the frequency to what is ‘human’ you are making spammers’ lives very difficult. The issue is to not make legitimate users upset by setting it too low. But that can be tweaked easily to perfection.

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 month ago]

you could approach the dev himself

http://radiok.info/blog/wordpress-multisite-activation-and-the-illogical-disregard-for-plugins/

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 month ago]

you’ll have to be clearer, what you wrote is really confusing, can you rephrase it?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 month ago]

second this but I didn’t know there was a plugin for this!

which one?

[AsynapticParticipant @synaptic 1 month ago]

it would be helpful if you would share it so another person can see the solution in case they want to do the same thing in the future @abray

that’s the whole point of having a support forum!