Thank you @intimez! I’ve been looking off an on for two weeks and never found that thread. Was going crazy.
Turns out it had to do with blocking search engines. Turned that off and it works fine. Never would have realized that until I came out of development so thanks for the link!
It is my understanding that blog comments should be showing by default but they are not appearing. Every other activity is appearing. Of course, blog comments are the only thing that come from the original WP install so something isn’t linking up. I’d link to it but it’s on a localhost install.
FWIW, I have made very few customizations to BP so far. It’s mostly all default right now. All components are enabled and all general settings are set to No (meaning I have not disabled anything).
I only added a few profile fields and added a function to change the default avatar.
I am testing this on two different registered users, one admin, one subscriber.