[@julia_b Participant 11 years ago]

Thanks @wecreatehype are you able to share a link so I can take a look please?

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @henrywright. I’m just looking a those now, but to be honest I’m not feeling hugely inspired by them. They mostly look more like content sites with community elements added on. I’m more looking for something where the community is at the heart, so members feel compelled to interact right from the moment they enter the site.

I do appreciate the link though, very interesting to see… And makes me feel like my site is already pretty cool! 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks @hnla, @danbp has been awesome, looks like he’s fixed it for me. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks @danbp, have followed you on twitter, really appreciate this.

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

I’m not sure @danbp, as you can see that post was from 8 months ago and the issue with group mentions has only appeared since I installed the latest buddypress update a few days ago.

I don’t think it can be the them because the issue still happens when I switch to the default Twenty Fifteen theme. And I have tried deactivating all the plugins and that hasn’t resolved it so I don’t think it’s that. But I’m not a developer, you clearly know more about these things than I do!

If you could have a look that would be great. Is there a way I can send you a test user account privately?

Thanks for your help.

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

I’m interested too, waiting for details so I can see how accessible it’ll be to someone like me who’s not a developer. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks @danbp. I tried reinstalling buddypress, that hasn’t worked. I’ve also tried deactivating all the plug ins in case of conflict and that’s not it. I thought it might be the theme but it still happens when I switch to the twenty fifteen theme.

I’ve never set up a child theme so nothing custom there. I can’t remember ever changing custom functions in bp-custom.php or theme functions.php, but I guess it’s possible I’ve been in there at some point. I’m not a professional developer so wouldn’t know what to look for in code error though, is there a way I can just restore those files to the defaults? Or would that have happened anyway when I installed the new copy of Buddypress?

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Just bumping this hoping someone can help, my members are grumbling about it and I have no idea how to fix it. Any tips please?

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks very much @djpaul and @danbp – all fixed for me with this. Really appreciate the speedy help.

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

I don’t know how to do that @danbp, could you point me to some instructions maybe please?

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks @danbp, but like @enaijo above, it was installing 2.2.2 that introduced this issue for my site too.

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Can anyone help with this please?

thanks 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks @danhp, so if I use this will people still be able to comment on posts in the group, but the activity comments won’t appear in the activity feed?

I don’t want to disallow comments in the group, just to stop them appearing on the activity feed on my homepage.

Really appreciate the help. You rock!

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Anyone able to help with the above please?

Looking at the site again today, I’m thinking the best solution to the duplication issue could be to remove ‘activity comments’ from the activity feed so replies only appear under the original post.

Is that possible?

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 11 months ago]

I emailed them last Wednesday and haven’t had a reply. So that’s not very encouraging!

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks @mercime, I’ll drop them a line, great to know the author is lead of BP, very promising! 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 11 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks @mercime, looks promising, but I wish there was more info on the site. I’m interested to know how this would integrate with the existing site and what would be different. It would also be useful to see some examples of sites which use it.

Do you have a connection to flox.io?

[@julia_b Participant 12 years ago]

Thanks @danbp, some wise words there!

You’re right, I do need to sort of let things settle for a while and maybe think along the lines of how to make my site the best it can be rather than trying to replicate Facebook.

In a way though, I was just using Facebook as example of something with great community functions, there are certainly several ways which my site could be improved especially in making the activity easier for members to follow and more of a Facebook-style feed would help with that. The site is a lot less easy to use on phones and some people have said they use it less than the FB group because they find it fiddly. So I don’t just mean that it has be Facebook really, just that I’d like to make it easy to use as I can.

I had a look at the Nextgen Facebook plugin, looks good but it seems like it’s more for sharing site content to social media which is not really what I need as most of what is on my site is either confidential member activity or member-only content.

I’ll keep looking around for more ways to make it more user-friendly and I will try to think out of the Facebook-box, you are right about that! 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years ago]

Oh yeah buddypress is awesome @ecrip! I’m not complaining just looking for ways to make the most of it.

It’s not just posting to the homepage for me, my members would get on better with it if the feed showed post threads more like Facebook does (as explained above). I know that’s always going to be tricky with it working in tandem with the bbpress plugin for the forum element, but hope there’s some way of getting closer to it. It would also be great if I could get the site working in app form so it displays a bit better on phones and sends out notifications to mobiles rather than just emails.

I massively appreciate all the work of the developers, don’t want to sound like I’m moaning here, just trying to optimise it to keep my members as happy as I can. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years ago]

Anyone able to offer any advice re. my previous post on having the site also work as a mobile app and getting the activity feed to appear more like Facebook group feeds?

Good to know posting from the hp is at least possible @ecrip. Sorry @demgiarehn I can’t understand that page.

Thanks 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years ago]

I’ve ironed out most of the kinks on my website now and most of the members have made the transition from the old Facebook group without too many problems – although, I won’t lie, there have been complaints from a fair few!

The main thing a lot of them miss is ease of access/use on mobile phones. The biggest factor seems to be that they could access the Facebook group via the app rather than needing to use a browser and the instant notifications of mentions to their phones helped keep them feeling involved. I’m not a developer, so there’s only so much I can do, but is it possible to have buddypress site (with busy bbpress forums) running as a mobile app at the same time?

Or is there some other solution I can offer? I’ve explained about email notifications, but members don’t feel like that’s the same.

The other issue is that members are saying it’s difficult to follow threads because on Facebook the original post will appear at the top with replies below and it gets bumped up the page each time anyone replies. I know Buddypress activity posts work a bit like that, but most of the activity appearing on my homepage activity feed is from the forums. Any suggestions?

Thanks guys. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Ah, that’s clever @peter-hamilton, I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

Thanks for the compliment on my site, great to hear that. I hope nothing messes it up too!

I’m having some problems getting it to display properly on iphones right now, but it seems to work well on other devices. And the members seem to be getting used to it, which is great, so maybe I don’t need to make many more Facebook-style modifications after all.

Really appreciate all the help.

🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @peter-hamilton. No, I haven’t tried customize page yet, could that enable posting to the activity feed directly from the homepage?

It would be great to know how to make the the links you have on the top left, I will look forward to the tutorial. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

That would be great if you could have a look and let me know what you think @peter-hamilton.

Here’s an id you can login with:

UN: testuser
PW: test

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

@peter-hamilton That’s because I have s2Member installed which is a membership wall plugin. My site is for paying members so if you’re not logged in you can’t see much of it. 🙂