[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks. Are the users you are expecting to see your friends? Remember both you and them need to approve the friendship request. If they’ve already got an invite to the group, then those users won’t be shown, either.

Maybe test on a new group.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Hi there!

I currently work for the Telegraph, so have first-hand knowledge. If you want to use Disqus, you need to get user authentication going between WordPress and Disqus. At the Telegraph, we have our own in-house authentication system, too, so we’ve got a three way connection between our system, WordPress, Disqus. It’s as tricky as it sounds, and it’s not perfect.

We also have to use the Disqus Single Sign On feature, which you have to pay money for.

Disqus do have a WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system but as I understand, it syncs between WordPress comments and Disqus comments (it never looks like you’re using Disqus).

I would suggest either using Disqus comments fully or WordPress comments fully. Not a mixture. Requiring people to sign in to Disqus via FB or TW I don’t think will realistically be a problem, as a lot of users have those social media accounts already. If you absolutely must have the Disqus / WordPress user authentication going, I’d suggest you get in contact with Disqus support at http://disqus.com/support/ and see what their thoughts are.

If you learn something, do share

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4242 (which you know about, since you posted the bug report. Thanks!)

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

I don’t think this is very easy to do, if at all. The reason being groups are pretty much hardcoded to three types of membership status: public, private, hidden. You could add some checks to only permit display of the activity list page, but you’d need to somehow keep track of if the user has “joined” the group.

I say “joined” because the user will have already joined the group — but you need a secondary type of group membership. You could store such a setting in group meta.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

bp_group_has_invites() starts the entire template loop. You don’t want that if you’re after a simple ‘are invites enabled for this group’ check.

Use bp_groups_user_can_send_invites(). It defaults to the current logged in user, so also check is_user_logged_in().

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone ask to send messages without a subject. It’s mandatory.

As a workaround, you could edit the messages templates, and replace the input text box (for the subject) with a input type of “hidden”, and set value to something like e.g. “private message”. It’s not foolproof, as a smart user could still change the subject, but I get the impression you wouldn’t be that bothered in that case

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Please don’t create duplicate threads: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/must-enter-a-subject-to-send-a-message-to-another-user/?#post-130683

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Old thread is old.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

What do you mean by ‘the field for the friends is completely empty’ — can you upload a screenshot somewhere?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Ok, that means it isn’t even looking in the right place for the file, so it gives up and uses a gravatar instead. I suspect it might be down to BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG (e.g. that might do a avatar-per-site) but I’m not too sure.

We need for someone to recreate this on a new install. I’ll try to do that this weekend.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

We probably should make it possible to override it as easily as that.

Out of interest, why do you want to put an exit() in it?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

There isn’t such a thing as “BP multisite”.

As I said I’ve not used a multi-network so I don’t know the specifics. As I understand, your ‘child sites’ each need to be in their own network. You then activate BuddyPress on each.

Not separate installs. Not new sites created under the ‘main site’ in a regular multisite config. Multi-network basically gives you multiple multi-sites, all running from the same files. If you’ve already done this, try contacting the authors of the WP + BP multi-network plugins and see if they offer support.

Multi-network support in BuddyPress is still a pretty new feature and it’s not used by many people, which is why it’s hard to find someone who has the answer

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

I’ve not used a multi-network but as I understand it your site1…site3.mainsite.net sites needs to each be their own network. You then need to activate BuddyPress on each of those networks.

Are your current site1 normal multisite sites right now?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Closing in favour of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/interesting-child-setup/

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Another great BuddyPress site!

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Talk to Automattic about Polldaddy; apparently it should be fixed.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polldaddy-polls-ratings-wp_title-missing-arguments

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Blimey. I’d like to reassure that there’s no conspiracy theory (but I would say that, right?), nor is the BuddyPress.org team ignoring posts on these forums. We are all volunteers, and we only have so much time that we can contribute. This thread is not heading in a constructive direction so I am going to close it.

Mercime’s answer above was good as any. It takes a lot of effort from lots of people to try to prevent spam. This thread talks about user registration spam and activity spam. In our next version of BuddyPress, 1.6, Akismet is integrated into Activity Stream. We have this running on testbp.org and it seems to be doing a decent job at helping.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Do you want those child sites to share *all* data, or just the user accounts?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

No.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

We should. Please make an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org/. You can use your username and password from this site.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

With CSS.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Suggest you hire someone with server expertise if you’re talking about that scale. It’s cheaper than trying to scrape together advice from forums.

100k users, one at a time, is different from 100k users visiting your site at the same time. It’s a question of concurrency, really, and what your requirements are about server redundancy and failover.

Whatever runs WordPress at this level, will run BuddyPress.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Ah. Mac is different from iPad and iPhone. Yes, you can’t upload from iOS devices.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Are you using an out-of-date version of Polldaddy, or any other plugin that modifies the page title? If you’re not sure, list your plugins here.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

This was cross-posted on BP trac, and the answer was provided at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4232