That’s my concern too. I know the folks who make BuddyPress available (write the program) have spent a lot of time doing so. And all of their efforts are greatly appreciated.
The fact remains, however, that the ability to add activity posts to the Frontpage is badly needed in today’s mobile society.
As of today, 60% of my site visitors use a smartphone to visit my site. I have tried myself to add activity posts from my phone. It isn’t easy to do; even for me.
In the short term what I have added a Help file to my BuddyPress site to try and help users over some of the hurdles that exist with posting to the platform as it is today.
Hopefully the folks that make BuddyPress available will find a solution for this issue soon.
I agree with @julia_b. The ability to add new activity posts to our Homepages is something that is needed. New BP_Users are going to be completely lost as to how to post activity updates and move on to someplace else.
Based on my searches the ability to allow activity posting directly to the Homepage isn’t the easiest to accomplish. But nothing is impossible either. The code/script already exists. It’s just a matter of figuring out how to implement it into the Homepage.
