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Is there a simple way to completely rename things? Like I got this to work fine re-url’ing “Groups” to “Topics” but then it still shows up everywhere else as groups. So beside manually going through, finding every instance of the word groups, and changing it to topics, is there any other way?

I don’t think every group needs a messageboard of it’s own.

No, I want the messageboard in buddypress to work like a regular messageboard.

Why would I not? I like the fact that it is all integrated, wordpress, buddypress, and a messageboard. I wanted it to work like a regular messageboard, but when they start a new thread or comment in a thread it shows up their buddypress stream the way it does when you comment on a blog […]

@Peterverkooijen I don’t care what is considered a “natural” part of a social networking website, it is what I want for the website I am developing. I wanted a messageboard potentially with subjects divided into specific groups, not groups with a bunch of messageboards inside of them. Like I said a few posts back I realized […]

I think there should be some kind of separation for the anonymous commentors, common sense stuff though, like they could comment on forum/group posts, but not on a personal update stream or whatever. @Peterverkooijen just because buddypress or wordpress or whoever develop new features for an application doesn’t mean you are forced to use the new […]

The only reason I would still be against the group idea is because of the same thing I mentioned a few posts back about people not wanting to sign up and register for a website, not everybody wants to joint a group, even though I know you don’t have to join a group in buddypress […]

I feel like a moron now because I just discovered if I delete the forum tab and pretend the groups tab is the forum tab, it works basically exactly like the way I was describing I thought it should work haha. Even the urls are straight forward /groups/thegroupname and you are on the equivalent of […]

@Peterverkooijen I really like the idea of them all being mixed together, if nothing else just to see what can be done, breaking down boundaries. Sometimes you just want to blurt something out facebook or twitter style into your stream, other times you want to post something with a bit of direction that you would post […]

@lincme.co.uk I agree with you on basically all of this, but there is still the major organizational problem with the way things are setup now, like look at the url of this page and how overly complicated that is. Like I said before I agree with you that renaming “forums” to “groups” is a great idea […]

I think that would be a great idea to just ditch the forums. You click on a group of interest and all the discussions/topics/threads/whatever are right there. But that is what a forum already is, accept you would be calling it a group instead.

I completely agree with you about trying to simplify terminology and usage for non-techies, that is exactly why I dislike this groups concept. The irony of what you just explained about how people don’t understand forums and how they are a bad idea, is that buddypress still uses forums and the word forum itself, buddypress […]

How are they in any way like a fanpage? A fanpage isn’t divided or organized by anything, they are like a single page blog.

Buddypress groups are like folders full of folders full of fan pages.

What is the idea even behind this “groups” concept? I have been trying to understand it and figure out a way to just work with it, but it just doesn’t make sense, it’s backwards. Traditionally you have a message board which is then divided into different groups, but here we got groups with a bunch […]

I’m really surprised nobody has written a plugin for this or the buddypress people haven’t worked it directly into the system yet, I’ve read so many complaints about this over the last 6 months or so.

I’m not sure if I would be able to follow all of that, but would that work the same integrating Buddypress and bbPress?

@r-a-y: how do you integrate the user bases

That kind of works but it still doesn’t eliminate all the groups confusion, when someone starts a new topic you still gotta tell it which group to go to, which will confuse people, the urls would so screwed up too, /groups/forum/forum/topic/theactualtopicname. Then there is probably a lot of other garbage still in the system that […]

I’m familiar with bbPress, but I’m looking to setup a forum integrated with Buddypress.