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hi Mercime

Andy Made it clear in Dev Chat, It is better for plugin authors to stick with the bp-default layout and keep the template in their own plugin directory, yes, we may check whether the theme has the template files for our plugin, if yes, load those template or fallback to plugins default template.

So, I think, now if a user is using default theme, developers will not require to move the plugin templates to theme directory.