Confusing
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Hey, Everyone,
I’m used to forums and the structure of forums. I like the idea of a social networking site, but is there no way to have it organized, at least at the end-user’s (that is, the visitor’s) request, as a traditional forum, in traditional forum hierarchy?
Seems that, judging by what I can see here, BuddyPress is organized into groups, each of which maintains its own forums…is that right?
BTW, I’m a hold-out from the period between 1995-2005, roughly, so I don’t really get Facebook, Myspace, Redbook, Friendster, Twitter, whoever! Thus, my questions reflect my general ignorance with social networks and why they’re set up the way they are. I mean, I understand giving everyone their own page, blogs, “groups,” and whatnot…I don’t understand why all that can’t be organized into a traditional electronic bulletin board structure, which seems more understandable to me.
I mean, I ain’t even sure I’ll be able to find any replies, should any be posted! Took me a few minutes of navigating to find somewhere to post this post, unlike in a traditional forum where I’d just look for the “Introduce Yourself” sub-forum….
Yes, I know my questions probably make no sense! So thanks for listening….
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Hey Everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Yes the obvious answer would be “install it in a ‘sandbox’ and try it out for yourself” but isn’t that what this site is supposed to be, right here, that very sandbox, that very demonstration? And I’m saying it’s confusing to n00bz from Web 1.0! And I’m asking whether there’s some way of adjusting the views, ultimately, in an admin panel or something, to look differently for those of us interface-fascists stuck to our old reactionary ways!
I think I get the idea of groups, but I don’t see how that’s so special from what was available on traditional forums, with a hierarchy of headers and forums/sub-forums (fora?) thereunder…but at least in that old style, it was visually self-explanatory. Here, forgive me for being a dumb ol’ fogy (39 goin’ on 90 here), but I had to puzzle it out in my head!
This site here is not a sandbox. It’s not meant to test things out. That would be http://testbp.org, as you can see from the theme, for example. testpb runs the default theme, while we have a more or less functional custom theme here
Install BuddyPress in a subdomain or, better locally on your home computer, and test out what it can do and what it can’t do. testbp is good in that you can see what you can do as an end user, but you won’t know what you can adjust as a site admin.
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