BuddyPress.org

I did, through BuddyPress. Which then took them and shoe-horned them into groups instead of simply integrating them with the rest of the site. In my 10+ years of social media experience I’ve never seen group-based forums that were successful at building community as effectively as ones that were configured in a more open manner. […]

But then, what the heck do I know? I only run two of the larger forums on the Internet.

I fully agree. This is the kind of “developer, not user-focused” development that makes Joomla and other competitive products suck. Don’t reinvent the wheel. What you guys seem to be doing is calling a “tire” a “wheel”, and forcing us to flip the car over sideways just to get it on. Tortured analogy notwithstanding, if […]