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@wa007 No problem. There are a few threads as well where people have offered advice on doing this sort of thing, or if you get stuck, ask back in here.

Thanks, Paul, I’ll try that tomorrow!

Oh, OK, I got it — it works with or without Buddypress? Thanks Sven… (will test it soonish).

The app is using the translation strings (with default verbiage) — that’s why you see stuff like __( ‘Leave Group’, ‘buddypress’ ) for example, in the code. You need to make a custom language file as well as changing slugs in wp-config.php (optionally). Search this forum for more info on how to create a language […]

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/

https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I’ve been trying like crazy to get that happening with some success, but some very wonky failure too, that I have been totally unable to track down. For example, in my childtheme’s members-loop.php, after I’ve added a div with which works fine. What I’ve totally been unable to do is to display that span conditionally […]

Without Buddypress? I’m not sure I understand…

Oh, and also boldface please a permalink to the latest comment made inthread from the forums directory view, preferably on the ‘2 minutes ago’ (or whatever it is) timestamp?

I’ve come to see the wisdom of the Groups as organizing principle, with forums/activity streams/ hanging off them. I think, as is often the case with these things, that the terminology used has confused the issue for many people (including users). On the site I’m currently building, I’ve done away with the words ‘forum’ and […]

Our forum thread favorites are still there and accessible from the old site (https://buddypress.org/forums/profile/stwc/favorites for example) (and public for all users, which I just realized). Pleasecan we have a return of an ‘Add to Favorites’ button for forum threads?

@el_terko Gee, I was looking for this post, had it as a favourite but when bp.org was redesigned, it misteriously “vanished” (together with all my other favourites)…

They’re still there, but it’s incredibly annoying not to be able to add new ones. Here: https://buddypress.org/forums/profile/el_terko/favorites

I agree – the disconnect between the activity stream commenting and everything else is a huge usability hole. It sucks. At the moment, my only solution is to disable commenting on those activity stream items (which you can with an existing radio button on the options page IIRC). That makes it more confusing for the user […]

You do know that Andy (who’s the main BP dev) was one of the people who put together P2, right? I wouldn’t imagine that it was ‘overlooked’ precisely. In fact, that pretty much useless ‘What are you doing/Post something’ textarea on the Activity page was lifted directly from P2.

My vote goes towards adding a usability/interface design expert to the team. … I think buddypress should be designed for the average user and not for the average programmer.

This. Most definitely this.

jivany is saying precisely what I was getting at. A ‘forum’ is not a specific tool or product: it is a way of structuring online conversation. I continue to argue that it is an essential one. If I could rip bbPress out of BP and slot in Vanilla (for example) as the forum-interaction-service-provider and have […]

The stuff like posting pictures of your newest pet or latest vacation – that “personal interest” and “personal interaction” stuff that makes people warm and fuzzy and feel like they belong to a group/community. Precisely. Anyone who’s been running web communities for any length of time knows how absolutely important this kind of thing is to […]

Yep, jivany, you’re right. But I think it’s important (as you imply) that we keep in mind that thinking as developers (‘Well, it’s all just posts! Text data in the db, after all!’) can be a dangerous trap — we also need to think as interaction designers, in terms of what users are doing and […]

OK, monster essay ahoy. This is a big part of why I think ‘forums’ are an important component of the overall experience, no matter what we call them. Here’s the meat from a couple of comments I made before on this subject, here on this very forum: I think web community, more perhaps for people […]

OK, this was edited in to a previous comment (or I didn’t notice it), so I’ll have a go. @stwc, can you answer the question, what makes forums so great for collaboration? What can you do with forums that you can’t do with blog posts + comments? I don’t know why we started talking about collaboration, […]