Use google. Go to your profile and edit name field to something different than login. Then your future posts will show in activity
I’m sorry, but that makes no sense to me. I’m not sure how google with help or changing my name, though I did it anyway but the only thing it changed was my login name. Now post – past or future shows in the activity stream.
@modemlooper, changing his profile/username will only show activity going forward, not retroactively
@sp12 what modemlooper is trying to say is that there is a strange feature at buddypress.org which hides your activity stream (due to spam concerns) so a way around it is to change your profile and edit your name field to something else other than 12sp (I changed mine from Synaptic to Asynaptic)
when you make the change you’ll be able to then see your activities on this site going forward, but you will NOT see activity prior to making the change, so your best bet is to recall keywords and then to search google like this (remove quotes of course):
“site:buddypress.org KEYWORD”
and hope that it has been crawled in google.
This “feature” to fight spam has been a source of questions by MANY users here at buddypress.org so much so that it seems the best bet is to either change it or to at least INFORM people once they register that they must change their name/username to be able to see their activity!
No idea why mods ignore this – it would not only cut down on confused questions but also improve usability of the site since prior activity is never shown, even when the change is made.
Moderators are BP experts, and help by sharing their knowledge. They don’t have any control over how the site works. For example, I don’t have access to change the theme on the site, etc. The site is hosted by Automattic.
That said, the core team (John, Boone, and myself) are meeting at WordCamp San Francisco in a couple of weeks — and spending a few hours working together on bporg might be something we do.
@djpaul – has anything changed recently, as the ‘Load More’ AJAX in my profile activity stream no longer works for me. Pretty sure, this was functioning correctly a couple of weeks back. Without this, it makes it even harder to find previous topics.
Again — don’t know — I’ll ask John.
