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@dennis_h (“If you believe BP causes more problems that it solves why do you use it?”) I chose Buddypress primarily to manage member lists for my projects and give members online profile pages and ways to interact with other members online. The first version of my site was a mix of WordPress + PunBB for the […]

@dennis_h (“What is so lacking in BP that would cancel out everything that is right with it and cause it to die out?”) Member management, privacy/security, a coherent vision of what Buddypress is and isn’t, … I was never 100% happy with Buddypress 1.0, but worked around the problems in my custom theme and hoped the […]

“Slowing down does not mean dying. 🙂 It means they get tired. Tired devs make mistakes. they also have a big job – half the users want faster dev, the other half doesn’t. Vocal people want this change, two months later, more vocal people want the last change ripped out. See the problem there?” Very […]

A social network is not the same thing as a forum. I agree real names should go together with privacy controls.

@Erich, (“t does not have to be a “REAL” name…”)

The standard on social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) is to use real full names. That should be the default imho and then there’s a plugin for those who want something else.

Is this thread only about buddypress.org or about the Buddypress script?

@Andy Peatling (“If you want a new feature or something changed, write a patch…”) It’s not about new features. Less is more. Buddypress needs to decide what it is and what it isn’t. At the moment it’s the kitchen sink. The problem is in the architecture and underdeveloped core features like member management and privacy/security. More community […]

@Erich, yes, I use an older version of Marius Ooms group blog plugin and have integrated P2 into my theme, so it is used on all the blogs. For a visitor who is not logged in or part of the blog team, the blog looks normal, without a post form at the top. P2 has lots […]

“There is almost no benefit whatsoever of Friends within BuddyPress …” Buddypress was supposed to be social networking added to blogging. Friends could form groups and work together in blogs. Friending itself is probably most relevant for internal email. The one thing you need to make that work is beefed up member management beyond default […]

“Andy is the only employed person working on the project. It’s so easy to ask for something. … it’s mostly a thankless and ungratifying task, but we do it because we want to help!” Andy/Automattic is too responsive! Their focus seems to be on delivering all these requested features out of the box. It’s pulling […]

There is a lot of discussion about symptoms. I believe the core problem is the pile-up of similar features that all get their own database tables – blog posts AND forum posts etc. You really only need three basic building blocks; users, posts, comments. Less is more. Most of the issues discussed in this thread […]

I don’t understand this site myself since the latest changes. I have no clue which messages are internal mail, or part of a group, or a forum post. I have a hard time finding my previous posts or threads I’d like to follow. I’ve argued this before: Bolting old-fashioned forum logic (bbpress) on top of […]

Just created a group and a blog with 1.1.3 on WordPress 3.0. Still no problems so far. 🙂

Jeff Sayre, which parts of 1.1.3 will not work on WP 3.0?

Paul Gibbs, can you point out which security holes have been fixed. Can’t I just patch them without upgrading to 1.2+?

I just upgraded a test install of my custom BP 1.1.3 version to WordPress 3.0. It went surprisingly well. I think everything works. I’ll test more over the coming days and will report back.

If anyone else has the chance to try, please post your finding here…

Buddypress has become an extension of BBpress.

A custom site will be less of a target than out-of-the-box Buddypress, so I’ll take my chances. If I can get it working on WP 3.0 of course, which is a big if… It depends on what will take the most work; getting 1.1.3 to work on 3.0 or going with 1.2 and having to […]

Why will 1.1.3 not work? What changed in WP 3.0 that breaks it? File names, hooks, functions? Or more fundamental things like database structure? How difficult will it be to make 1.1.3 work on WP 3.0?

I’m not planning to upgrade to 1.2…