[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

just wondering if Automattic is able to afford to buy your plugin and service ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Xevo,

no, I am not talking as “Polls” being a plugin. There have been user-polls in the past at this very Forum, at which everyone could vote on features they would like to see in the future-versions of BuddyPress.

In general, all I want to say with my initial post is that we should not loose sight of what kind of features are really important.

Everybody has different priorities and everybody needs a certain feature, but we should not loose sight that certainly everybody will need “Privacy Features”.

Privacy might not be very important in the USA, but I can tell you gonna have quite big troubles in running a Social-Network in many countries in Europe, without providing User-Privacy.

There is a good chance you gonna run into legal troubles – which is quite critical, besides that users will complain about finding their private information on Search-Engines like Google. Just think about running a Dating-website, where users post lots of private information, but literally its not safe for them to use your website.

The other feature of “Advanced Search & X-Profile Fields” should be also within Core-Code and will definitely enhance every website being run on BP, no matter your niche. Think about -for example- performing a search for the users at your website being “male” and at an age-range between “20 and 30 years of age”. This is currently not possible.

The necessity of the feature of “User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end” is debateable, most probably not being used by everyone. But did you ever go into the “backend” of Facebook in order to write a post ?

Anyhow, just wanted to highlight to make sure you still see the forest in a clutter of trees…..

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

take it easy, but take it

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Advanced Search for X-Profile-Fields was on the BP-Roadmap for 1.2, same as “Privacy-Features” and “User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end”. However those 3 features did not make it into BP1.2

I think most of the requested and discussed features on this Forum are Plugin-territory, but the mentioned 3 features should definitely be within Core and are essential to run a Social-Network-website:

– Privacy Features

– Advanced Search & X-Profile Fields

– User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end

I would even say:

STOP any further feature-polls for BP 1.3 and focus on above mentioned 3 features ONLY.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

as far as I know, users are auto-joining a Group by default in BP when they are writing a comment onto a certain Group.

But joining certain Groups during the Sign-up-process is definitely a good idea to implement.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I would suggest you setup a german-language-version of testbp.org and then many people can either send you a PM with language-suggestions or even better yet having a TRAC-ticket-system for language-translation-suggestions.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks Tore !

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

you are allowed to delete the word “BuddyPress”, but you need to keep the word “Ning.com” in there…..

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

BuddyPress without Privacy-feature is killing my project !

+13

guess thats the lucky number for Jeff

My PayPal is waiting for you, Jeff !

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Dennis,

which ones are the LATEST version of the german-language translation files ?

There are 2 download-links available (at least those are which I discovered so far…)

https://i18n.svn.buddypress.org/de_DE/

https://i18n.svn.buddypress.org/de_DE/tags/1.2/

Many thanks,

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

– where do I find the codex-pages ? I can not see any edit-button.

– how do I join the “Community” youve mentioned ?

Many thanks,

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

good to hear that there is going to be a german-language-install at http://de.buddypress.org, because the current german version http://www.buddypress.DE sucks.

I am wondering why there is no official installation like http://www.testbp.org in german language (or any other language) available yet ?

Why not put up an installation like testbp.org in german language and collaboratively work on a proper language-translation on such an official install ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

the most important BP 1.3 features:

– Privacy Features

– X-Profile Fields

– User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end

Hope to see those features as being the winners in the expected BP 1.3 feature-poll.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

also, the above link is not available at “BP-Docs”:

German – Deutsch (de_DE)

Please update BuddyPress.org in order for people being able to find the i18n download-page (for german language).

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

+1 for having this in Core.

the best would be to have the Admin-option to select if you want backend or frontend Blog-posting for User-Blogs.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

oops

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

O.K. guys:

the coding-competition has just started on this feature

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Peter

totally agree !

How is Fakebook running this process ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

ashfame,

I can not see the bug you have mentioned “double slash in notifications”.

At least I could not find this within testbp.org ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

great BuddyPress.org re-design, you are always out for a nice surprise

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

http://socialmedia.net/content.php?117-matt

Matt says that he believes HTML5 will be the next wave of revolution for the web: it won’t be Web 3.0 or the semantic blah blah. It’s going to be about broadband, and HTML5 will allow us to provide full interactive applications right there in your browser that will load up in seconds. He says that he is counting the days to when they can drop support for IE8 and just support HTML5.

http://socialmedia.net/content.php?117-matt

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

just click the button “unbozo me” at the top-right of your screen…..

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@michel,

not sure I understand your post, but it sounds like somebody hitch-hiked you into Skype-calls of “how to work with Social-Networks & BuddyPress” ?

Get yourself a good programmer (search for a coder in the job-forum at this website) and I am sure you will find a reliable person who will set-up your very own Social-Networking-website using BuddyPress-plugin-software. For a standard-setup-install (including Group-Forums), this should not take any longer than 1 hour (cost of 1 man-hour).

BuddyPress and WordPress is the most ethical software you can get.

What you will get is not a website the same as buddypress.org, but even better a website very similar to what you can see at http://www.testbp.org and then you can customize it to your needs if you want.

I had to “burn” 2 programmers (they were only asking for money but basically not doing anything or doing things wrong and not giving any feedback) until I found the right person who is reliable and understands his job. Its all about test & fail to find a good and reliable coder, same as finding correct and reliable people in real life.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

so what about using this ?

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?story=358&blog=1

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

agree, Privacy is the most important part and I do hope we will see anything like this working with BP 1.2 and hopefully have Privacy-features in BP 1.3 Core.