[James Smith]

sadly we have to stick like glue to the stable packaged releases of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), so a php upgrade out-of-cycle is highly unlikely. Bring on RHEL6…

@DJPaul – have verified with plugins disabled and default theme installed… same story.

[James Smith]

Just for completeness, I fixed those IE errors by changing

`JSON.parse(c)`
to
`jQuery.parseJSON(c)`

in availability.js and email_checker.js

[James Smith]

>>Just because Facebook does something a particular way doesn’t make it a best practise

– true, but you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll have done some serious multi-variate testing on the conversion rates of that sign-up form.

There are plenty of arguments on both sides, but as part of a full usability overhaul I’m falling more on the side of fewer fields.

This jquery plugin looks like it could be a good usability enhancement too:
http://www.unwrongest.com/projects/show-password/

Thanks for pointing me towards bp-xtra-signup plugin, it looks great (though I’m getting JS errors in IE6 and IE7 when using the ajax auto-checkers…)

[James Smith]

It’s all about cutting those barriers to entry…
As Ehegwer says, self-service via the password reset function is something everyone will be familiar with. Facebook for example, has no password confirmation requirement.

Anyhow, in the end I did it with a small and relatively unobtrusive core hack.

[James Smith]

@DJPaul I’m on php 5.1.6 and get this problem. Other unusual bits about my setup are that it’s a sub-directoy install and I’m using a proxy for all outgoing script connections.

[James Smith]

Thanks all for the speedy patches. As JJJ points out, the first one will be tricky to get ‘right’… needs the option to reassign groups to a given user instead of deleting.

[James Smith]

not running any caching yet, no.

I’ve narrowed down the problem however – it actually seems to be caused by deleting the wp USER who created the group. Doing that removes the user’s group(s) from the listings page, but doesn’t remove them from wp_bp_groups (and therefore the count is also incorrect).

thanks for clarifying on the bb forum thing.

[James Smith]

running on WP 3.0.0 and BP 1.2.5.2. Only unusual thing is that I’m using a proxy for external http connections. Any idea how I can troubleshoot? (The debug mode is not much help because of this other problem: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/installed-and-activated-buddypress-wall-of-warnings/)

[James Smith]

I have the same problem – did you find any resolution?

I’m also finding that deleting a group does not delete its forum from the wp_bb_forums database table

[James Smith]

Hi thanks for your suggestions everyone, and sorry for the delay… I didn’t receive any email notification of these replies – is that normal? I’m still very new to BP…

[James Smith]

I’ve got this too – any resolution?