We have just released BuddyPress 2.2.2.1 which includes the fix for this problem. Please upgrade, and we’re very sorry for the inconvenience that the initial 2.2.2 release caused. 🙂
Probably not really unless you (or a developer) builds something custom, but one of the things we will do soon – either in the next release (2.3) or the one after (2.4), we’re seriously looking at overhauling how we handle images. We’ll keep this use case in mind (having them stored in the media gallery).
This is working as intended. The reason is that if we made those links in the Activity Stream to use your site’s normal permalink pattern, if the permalink is changed in the future, all the old links in the Activity Stream would probably break. It’s not scalable to re-generate all those links when the permalinks are changed, especially on giant sites.
In short, I wouldn’t worry about this. The ?p= style links should redirect to the post’s full/normal URL, so it has minimal affect on your users.
I read that the BP default theme has been retired and should not show up under Appearance > Themes unless it’s still in use.
That’s not quite true. If you can remember where you read it, please let me know, and I’ll see about correcting the information.
If you had a BuddyPress site prior to version 2.0, then we will always make BP-Default available in the themes list. If you were to install BuddyPress today on a new site that did not have BuddyPress installed before, then it would not show up. I hope that makes sense.
(I’m not sure if we started this behaviour in version 1.9 or 2.0, but it was around then).
I think we need to look at one of the problems at a time, otherwise we’ll never figure it out. Let’s take creating a new Group as an example.
Please can you explain exactly how you are creating a group (including what content you’re entering for the group name and group description, and so on), and how far you get through that process before you some kind of error message.
