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Have you changed your permalinks to something else?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_SubPanel

Set it to anything but the default.

bp_is_member() works better.

We can worry about redirects later, but does BuddyPress function well besides the old activity links?

Can you try removing the redirect rules from step (4)?

So, at the moment, what do you see when you go to /themainblog/network?

Ahh okay, wp-config.php is better actually.

Did you activate BuddyPress network-wide?
Also, did you enable the BuddyPress Default theme on blog id #9?

First, you have to change all references to the strings you want to localize so your POT file knows where to reference them.
Then, you need to create a POT file.

Here’s a quick guide I found on Google using poEdit:
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/

There are others of course!

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The sidebar, by default, allows you to login or create an account:
http://testbp.org

Also, did you enable registration on your BP install?
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

You’re missing the BP_ROOT_BLOG define.

Can you quicky go over part (1) in the codex article and add that to your bp-custom.php?
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

Hook into the “bp_adminbar_random_menu” action.

function my_random_article() {
echo 'YOUR LINK';
}
add_action( 'bp_adminbar_random_menu', 'my_random_article' );

Add to your theme’s functions.php.

You need to create a file called “bp-custom.php” in /wp-content/plugins/.

Make sure you create the file with opening and closing PHP tags:

Replace square brackets with triangular ones.

First problem… try using an activity stream loop on your main blog:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

You’ll need to add the activity stream loop to your main blog theme.

Make sure BuddyPress is activated network-wide.

bp-custom.php resides in /wp-content/plugins/, not /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/.

Also just to confirm, are you using a subdirectory install?

But alas, you should be patting @johnjamesjacoby on the back for cleaning up my code and adding it to BP core 😉

Try the code in this thread to make the forums tab the default group tab:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults#post-55449

Removing the group home tab will probably need some additional code.
Or you can use some CSS to hide it.

The thread was probably closed by me because of a duplicate discussion. We don’t want multiple threads talking about the same thing. Even if there is no satisfactory conclusion, a discussion can continue from the originating thread.