[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Have you tried doing it directly inside your database? (backup before) That way you can brute force things like this. I guess it’s a bad idea to do it with your “admin” account although.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hi!

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve been using a header-hack to ensure that no non-registrees are allowed into the website. I’ve only found https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/ that’s secure enough for me (all parts of the website). But it isn’t supporting BP 1.2. right now. I’m hoping for a release soon enough although.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Registered users only 2 doesn’t work currently with BP 1.2. It cannot handle the new way of registration from BP.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I was having an issue with the security plugin “only registered users 2” and not being able to get to the registration page. Are there any security things in the way?

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

+ 10

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

There’s no water proof way of securing all components (without some sacrificice at least).

But check this for example:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-force-login-for-member-pages

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Peter!

Is it possible to also include “activity” (the stream) from Buddypress 1.2 in this? That way, you’d cover most things.

Thanks!

Tore

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“I’d like to know how people are using the plugin. For my client, It’s just 3-5 PDFs per group. With such a low volume, I didn’t anticipate the need for much heirarchy. “

True. We’re using about 10 PDFs in one group right now. It will grow but perhaps there will be about 100 per group.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Great suggestion Ray.

Too my for one folder? 20-30 before being to clogged up. But that depends on what’s in them.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

The update is up and it works great! Thanks!

Something that perhaps would be beneficial would be a bit more visibility on the stream. Right now it’s only the text “uploaded the file” which indicates that there’s a new file on the website.

If possible perhaps the description of the file could be added as the “message-text” in the stream?

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

The current “group documents” doesn’t support 1.2 as far as my testing goes.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@ Jivany

You’ve covered this on trac: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1536

So this is a question of privacy settings for the blog.

I hope this isn’t considered hijacking, but do you, DJPaul or anyone know how to make _old_ posts that were counted as private (as per above) appear in the stream?

I can make new posts appear in the stream now but all the old blog posts (https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2) are still hidden. Some value in the db?

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Ah! That was it! My website with latest trunk was exploding at lot with the friends feature disabled. Oh well, I might as well start using it.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Here’s the latest trunk from WPMU:

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk/

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve had this problem also. I’ll try the latest WPMU trunk and see what happens.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Any plugins?

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks!

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@ MrMaz: I’ve got some basic CSS-skills but not more than that. I’ve got more opinions than skills (blushes)..

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Would love to see this with 1.2 and some way to add the “link” on the frontpage.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

“Rather than thinking of the activity stream as just a place where everything is aggregated, the activity stream will be the place where everything actually happens/is stored.”

Praise the lord! (sorry for the evangelic speak but I think this is a major positive change)

“small iterative improvements”: Regarding the forums

I’ve been debating to stop viewing the forums the way we’ve been. Established BP-websites using it will be less interested in this. I’m still starting out and would like to change my website to 1.2-style and ahead.

Currently (1.1) the forums are available when walking to groups and then the forums. You have to click a lot to get to the posts.

The new theme (1.2) is trying to place the activity stream as the place to _do_ it all. I’ve been using testBP.org like crazy because it’s like a mini Facebook/FriendFeed. So I like it.

So what happens to the forums? Why will anyone even bother to go all the way down to groups/forums and post something in the forum (or even at the website.com/forum/-page) with 1.2? Buddypress, out of the box, isn’t using some kind of TinyMCE or else that would allow you to enter things in a different way (most forums have some kind of quoting system). It’s just a box to write in. But still it’s a categorised box and replies to the box is shown more egalitarian with the same size (comments to posts in the stream aren’t).

My guess is that communities with very active forums will still be used. But newcome BP-installations will not use them that much unless they’re really big communities (+5000).

This does change the way that we interact and talk. Nothing in the activity stream (1.2) will be important enough to be put at the top of the list. It’s just the stream with the latest new activity at the top. This is another change away from the old forum style. In a regular forum, the latest post with a new comment will trigger the topic to move to the top of the forum topic list (the old activity stream).This is where BP will be very different. There’s no retriggering of topics to the top if you aren’t using the forums the old way (which people will probably do less and less).

Facebook is nice but you loose the use of forums since they aren’t presented in the stream. The stream rules… This way BP will be focused on social relationships that mainly are filled with activity updates consisting of bits and fragments instead of intense debate of old topics. Why? Because there’s no retriggering of topics to the top.

Am I alone to prophecy the death of the forum? …and the need of some kind of solution to this merge of everything into the status update, which I also aplaud…

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’ll say this from a user’s perspective. Not programmer.

I want everything as a stream on one page. It’s great if things are categorised as forums, groups, wire and all. But still, I just want to write something in a box in a simple way. This either goes in reply to something or not. I want to encourage my users to engage. I’ve found this to be true with “activity streaming” but not so much with forums or blogs.

I’ve got a small community. Like it will max out at 1000 members. And about 10-20% active ones. To us it will be useful with one stream and to use that mostly. You guys with 10.000 members will probably not have an efficient activity stream.

Let’s make it moddable. It is not a one size fits all.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

IE6 is quite broken. Comments aren’t showing for example.

Not great for my intended crowd. They’re a bit older and have got old computers and in those companies.

I’ve talked with Arx but s/he’s not interested in supporting it either. I’m no CSS-guru but would really like to have some simple compatability with IE6 and BP 1.2.

Anyone out there?

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Lazy is nice. I’m looking forward to see if they lazy part gets satisfied.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Wow, quick and positive answer! Nice to see you’re working on it.

[@toregus Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve been searching for this also. Did you find anything?