BuddyPress.org

@michaelecklund BuddyPress is built with the intentions of scaling into millions of users, something individual WordPress sites were not originally intended to handle. Shoving everything into a WordPress post […]

* Backup your database (you may need to restore if migration fails)
* Disable BuddyPress’s Forums component
* Tools Forums Import
* Choose bbPress1
* Run the converter
* Visit Tools Forums
* Run all of […]

Why do y’all think calling people names is going to help anything? That’s pretty silly.

Closing this topic, since it’s another one that’s all about criticism, and not about execution.

@ethanvan:

Through-out BuddyPress’s life (since 2007) numerous people have come into the forums and demanded change, talked about how much they dislike everything, and “if only we’d do X” that person would […]

My point is simply give people the documentation they need to participate.

Is there something preventing you from doing this that I can help with?

The “if you don’t do %, you’re going to lose %” attitude […]

A few things:

Manually writing documentation about code, is an infinite loop, where no one is satisfied. Code changes quickly, line numbers change, hooks change, things get deprecated, and one becomes a bottle […]

Creating a child theme and forking an existing plugin seem like a lot of extra work. What was wrong with contributing a patch upstream to one of the other follower plugins?

Criticizing and complaining isn’t the way to motivate anyone to volunteer anymore time than they already do. You don’t like it? Neither do we, and we’re working on fixing everything up, similar to what we did […]

Coming into our support forums and asking us if you should fork our software that’s still in active development is pretty silly. If you want to fork it, go. We’ll miss your contributions, but kindly talk about […]

@shawn38 – Firstly, thanks for the kind words. Secondly, if someone wants to try and charge for a plugin, they are free to do so. Also, telling someone you’re not trying to attack them, and then attacking them, […]

I’m all for people helping people, but please take this conversation into email, chat, or someplace else.

Closing.

Not the place to vent your frustrations. Closing this.

@ffadler – open up your favorite database manager, and search the options tables for anything that looks like ‘bp-db-version’

We’ve changed the option key over the years, so it’s possible something is […]