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I’m having wrong times all over the place as well. Can anyone tell me where I can set the time zone in wp-admin, all three or four different places? And why it’s messed up?

“Is this post by Andy Peatling (“”No firstname/lastname because this does not work for a lot of international users.”“) still the official position or have things moved on?” Nothing has changed, so I assume it remains the official Automattic position and have given up on Buddypress. I’ll continue to develop my sites as “custom code” […]

@r-a-y (“Usernames are unique.”) Only when they are required to be unique. You could also require display/real names to be unique. The emerging standard is that the email address has to be unique. The @mentions system could check by the email address connected to the real name. There really is no excuse to keep a username […]

@thelandman, in my solution I use javascript to generate the username from the weird semi-optional xprofile fullname field, hide the username field on the form, use the email login plugin so members don’t need the username to log in, add more custom code to synchronize the fullname and the fullname-derived username to all the various similar […]

@eborg9 (“I’m not going to insult the decision to code it that way…”) I have argued your point for over a year, more diplomatically at first, with zero effect. The developer community here doesn’t care about this issue. In my comment I simply gave the reasoning I got from Andy (Automattic). Anonymous usernames rule in the […]

It is a conscious design decision by Andy Peatling not to support full names as “Firstname Lastname” or synchronize the various names fields, because it would run into international cultural sensitivities – or something like that… I have added lots of custom workaround code in my sites to fix this mess and had posted my […]

Streamlined member management should have been a core feature of Buddypress. Thanks for picking this up.

@21cdb (“The only thing is missing is the ability to choose if you want to post an “Update” or an “Discussion” (or Forum Post, or whatever you want to name it).”) You could achieve that using categories and some if/else PHP. I did something like that in my P2 group blogs, that I use instead of […]

@dennis_h, amen, preach it brother! Yes, forums are very useful and popular, but they are just another way of displaying a conversation. The basic building blocks for blogs, forums or social networks are the same: users posts comments If you want a traditional forum view, you could probably create that in your theme. There is no […]

@3sixty (“The irony of “BuddyPress shouldn’t be about forums”, and “if you want a forum, don’t use BP” and “bbPress is a parasite in BP…” is that the FORUM is the center point of activity here on buddypress.org”) There’s nothing ironic about that. Traditional forums are very useful, but if you want a traditional forum you […]

@stwc (“My great worry these days is that the dev community is being compelled to fix problems with usability of core BP, as much or more so than extending what’s there.”)

That is my hope. Don’t extend. Fix problems first.

@Scotm (“Give me a P2 groupblog with a cleaned up groups feature and BuddyPress is relevant again…”) That’s kinda where I’m trying to get to. Marius Ooms as well. One of my frustrations is that I can’t figure out how to put the ‘group blog home’ on the ‘group home’ page itself without breaking the Ajax. […]

@jivany (“I don’t understand your BP forum complaints. You don’t use forums because you have basically replicated the forum concept in blog posts/comments”) Exactly! My point is that integrating an external forum like bbPress into Buddypress is unnecessary and only creates a lot of confusion, undermines the structure. Less is more. KISS. I wou…[Read more]

@jivany (“On a typical WP installation, blog posts are written by site owners and/or their chosen authors. This means only certain selected groups of people can start a new discussion point/thread. Forums typically allow everyone to start a new discussion and have their peers comment on that topic.”) I use Marius Ooms groupblog plugin in a […]