[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

BuddyPress.org / testbp.org is for sure NOT charging for anything.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I would say that the average non-techie does not understand the word and the meaning of “Blog” anyway.

I even met people who asked me what is the difference of a “homepage” to a website……think about this….

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Blogs = Websites

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[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

hmm…I am not a FaceBook user, but it seems 300 million people are.

How are “all of the above mentioned” things being done at FaceBook ?

Do we need to re-invent the wheel ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@stwc

I agree with you on the Group-Forums being a bit confusing, for techies and even more so for non-techies.

Any suggestions / ideas of how to improve this ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I guess this is worth a TRAC-ticket ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

yeah, but why do you spam this page ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

well, just wondering if the “Notifications”-tab at the header-bar would be still required when having this widget within the side-bar ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

great !

is it possible to de-activate the “Notifications-tab” within the BuddyBar ?

As this feature is somehow already available within the BuddyBar.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Hi Jeff,

this is a great ticket of what is really needed for BP to move ahead.

Thank you !

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@Peter

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“So Buddypress is The Standard and everybody else has to adapt?”

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no, but WordPress is the Standard.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

looks like we came to a good conclusion ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

see this TRAC-ticket:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1498

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I agree.

I would definitely not want the feature of “friending” with somebody to disappear. This feature is essential.

Ususally I am very happy when I do get a friendship-invitation, and this is a very important psychological factor as well.

First you need to “friending” with somebody, only after that you are able to “sort” your friends into different “Friend Groups” (like putting friends into different folders e.g. family, work, girlfriends, etc.) and also being able to make those “Friend Groups” either public, private or hidden.

Whether you “follow” your friends or whether you follow other people (who are not your “friends”), is a totally different story and a different feature.

Not sure why JJJ wants to remove the “friending feature” in favour of the “following-feature”…. ?

Can we not have both ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Having the option of setting certain “Friends-List” to be “public, private or hidden” would be great. So I can set a certain “Group of Friends” to be hidden from other “Group of Friends”.

Not sure if Jeffs “Privacy-Plugin” is capable of doing this ?

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@Xevo

that decision is up to Andy & Matt.

But I would be willing to donate for 1 more person.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@dpolant

I am very much interested in your plug-in (if it is working fine with BP 1.2).

Many thanks !

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I would donate to Automattic for hiring one more developer into the core-team…..

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

you might want to check http://www.buddydress.com

it is being run by guys in Italy…..

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

you mean removing the “Friending somebody” stuff and instead make only “Following somebody” ?

Yeah, why not ?

In the end, the people at a social network are usually not my “real” friends…..

I actually only have 2 or 3 “real” friends in life – how many real friends do you have ?

Thinking about this, gives me the conclusion that the idea of JJJ and Andy is the right one.

Lets replicate real life, instead of creating artificial behaviour……

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@designody

you might be talking about something like the “Group-Blog-Plugin” is offering ?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/groupblog-v13-adding-members-instantly-thanks-boone

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Re: #1:

if you do not want to have User-Blogs, just turn this feature off.

You will then have Groups, Group-Forums and a Social-Network without “User-Blogs”.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@Bowe,

well said.

I guess what we do NOT need is “twittering” and “tweets” with 140 letters.

But what we do need is a feature to “FOLLOW” somebody we are interested in, like “follow” somebody because we like the way he is writing his Blog or we do like someones opinion on something. Following somebody does not relate to the “quality and somewhat lenghy” content of that specific person.

In fact we could “FOLLOW” a “Person” as well as a “Group” – and after a while get to the point to invite this person for a “Friendship” or decide to “Join” a specific Group.

Hm well……

reading what I have just wrote myself – not really sure whether we really do need a “FOLLOW”-feature after all. Because if you like somebody, you can directly request a “Friendship” without following him for a year

So at the end: do we really need all this TWITTER-FOLLOWING-stuff ?

Probably just having something like “subscribe to this Forum-Thread” or “subscribe to this Blog” and receive an e-mail when there are any updates would be what we REALLY need ?

KISS

Keep It Simple & Stupid

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I guess the “Group-settings” (public, private, hidden) would give an additional level of Privacy-Options for “Friends” if we go with the idea of Andy and JJJ.

So I can set a certain “Group of Friends” to be hidden from all my other friends.

That would be a very needed feature !

For example you are running a website for a niche-company-directory:

so the user will have friends at his suppliers and at his customers. But I am sure he does not want his customers to know who his suppliers are and vice-versa. This would be also the case at other niche-websites, like dating-websites, etc.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

the suggestion of JJJ is great, but why not make “Groups” of people which you have “friended” already ?

So first “friend” with people, then put them in your different Friend-Groups like “family”, “customer”, “employee”, “girlfriends” (which might be set to be a hidden Group), etc.

[@erich73 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@Mike

totally agree with you.

especially:

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“What BP needs, I think, is expanded friend functionality. Ie friend grouping a la facebook style so I can filter my ever growing list of friends into like groupings e.g. Family, etc.”

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being able to do mass-mailing based on different “Groups of Friends” (different mail for Family, company, best friends, etc.).

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