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In reply to: Location Profile Field
There used to be the possibility to use pre-built fields to the registration form (as described here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/what-happened-to-add-prebuilt-field), which would take care of at least part of this problem. But it appears this is no longer supported for 1.2.
So I definitely support the request for the ability to add pre-built registration fields.
In reply to: Facebook's News Feed PatentThere’s also some discussion going on about it here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/attachments-for-activity-items
I strongly doubt it will have any effect at all. Did you know even something as basic as the hyperlink has been patented? Just this website alone probably already infringes on dozens and dozens of existing software patents. Software companies generally don’t go after people who infringe on their patents until they might become a credible threat to their business model.
Furthermore, these kind of patents are all invalid outside of the US. So in a worst case scenario wordpress & buddypress would have to move some of their business to Europe. I highly doubt it would ever come to that though.
I wouldn’t be too worried about this. Any software (inc. wordpress) is filled with functionality that has been patented before one way or another (and the facebook news feed patent includes many elements that have been patented by other companies before). Most of these patents have so much prior art that they would never hold up in court. If wordpress core and plugin devs had to check for existing patents for every single function they added wordpress development simply woudn’t be possible and grind to a halt.
A second issue is that software patents aren’t valid outside of the US, so if you’re really paranoid about this kind of thing you can always host your site in Europe.
In reply to: What happened to "Add Prebuilt Field''Is there an easy way to do this yet? I’d like to be able to show a country dropdown list (e.g. like on http://www.thegallagher.net/country_dropdown.php) but I don’t see a way to add a pre-built list. Even if I did it manually there’s no option to use the full country names with their 2 digit ISO codes as values.
+1. This feature is used very frequently on facebook so I can see it being popular on any social networking site.
In reply to: Privacy+15
Some feedback on the Funding progress bar: maybe you could set it to a more reasonable amount so there’s a goal to work towards and we can actually see the progress bar move after a donation. 9,000 USD might be a bit steep
http://jeffsayre.com/2010/01/02/do-you-support-buddypress-privacy/
In reply to: Wire 1.2@Xevo You mean something like a ‘mentions stream ‘ on the user page, separate from the user activity stream?
In reply to: Wire 1.2@Andy But from a usability point of view this is very confusing. Some activity streams do allow you to post into them and some don’t. One method of posting into a user activity stream is allowed (replies) but another (leaving a direct comment) isn’t. From a developer point of view this might feel logical due to the underlying structure, but from a user point of view it’s very confusing. A user is forced to jump through all sorts of hoops just to be able to interact with a friend.
I don’t think it would be confusing for the user at all to allow their friends to post into their activity stream. They are, after all, already able to do this by replying to an activity. Allowing users to directly post into their friends activity stream would merely add consistency to the user interaction. It’s precisely how Facebook works and they seem to get along just fine.
On the other hand, the fact that in order to see a comment on your own profile you have to browse to someone else’s profile does feel very confusing, because it all of a sudden injects twitter style functionality into a specific subset of the buddypress user interaction which otherwise is more consistent with how the majority of other social networking sites work.
In reply to: Wire 1.2@Modemlooper I have to say that’s a very inconvenient method of posting on someone’s activity stream though. It forces you to browse away from the user profile to be able to post a message into their activity stream. The average user will most likely just think it’s not possible to leave a comment.
A second, more important issue is that this method is inconsistent with the group-, site- and your own user page activity streams because those, contrary to the user page activity stream of a friend, do allow users to post message directly into them. The current implementation takes some elements from twitter and some from regular social network sites and applies them inconsistently. All in all this makes for a very confusing user experience.
I think a lot of these issues would be alleviated if the activity stream on the user page of a friend would have a text area near the top, consistent with those found on the site-, group- and your own user page activity streams. Messages posted through this method would automatically be preceded with an @ mention. This would apply the same user interaction method to all activity streams and yield a much more consistent user experience.
In reply to: Wire is gone?!@DJPaul The Wire is disabled by default. Personally I believe this would be a good thing, were it not for the fact that there is no longer a direct and easy way to leave a comment onto someone’s profile (other than using the indirect method of mentions, which is quite confusing to the user). You’d expect to be able to post directly into someone’s activity stream, as is possible with the site wide activity stream, but for some reason you can only reply to activities on the user profile and not directly post a message into it.
In reply to: Wire is gone?!@r-a-y Thanks for the clarification. Do you know why it was decided to implement it this way?
It feels very counter intuitive that you’re able to post replies into the user activity stream, but to post a direct message into the activity stream you have to use a completely different component (which is disabled by default) to have your message show up in the user activity stream in a roundabout way. And to add even more confusion, posting messages directly to the site wide activity stream conversely is possible without having to use any tricks.
I don’t mean to sound harsh, because I love buddypress and it’s an amazing piece of software, but it does feel like it’s a bit counter intuitive and inconsistent in this specific instance.
In reply to: OpenSocial supportI remember that the last roadmap contained plans for adding open stack support so there’s clearly demand for such functionality. I would personally love to see this kind of support added as well.
In reply to: HELP I CAN'T POST! – READMEJust had this issue for the third time. It’s evil because it fails more or less silently so unless you really pay attention you won’t even notice that your message didn’t come through.
In reply to: Wire is gone?!@hnla How do you mean that it’s part of the activity stream now? As far as I know it’s impossible to post a message directly to the activity stream on someone’s profile (unless it’s a reply to an activity, which is very limiting).
In reply to: Wire is gone?!It would be great if users were able to post messages directly into the activity stream of someone else (instead of only their own activity stream). That way the activity stream will basically have the wire built into it, which would offer a clean and unified solution to this problem.
What do you think?
In reply to: Photo Albums…. omfg!!@ Peterverkooijen: “Simple plugins that leverage established, mature gallery apps would prevent much of those upgrade dilemmas. Let Zenphoto and NextGen handle upload, compression, database storage, gallery creation, etc. The BP plugins then only have to provide ways to display images stored by those apps within the BP context.”
I completely agree. NextGen gallery is already an extremely advanced and mature gallery plugin. It seems to me that writing something new from scratch would both be a lot of work and never approach the functionality of a dedicated gallery plugin. If we could somehow use NextGen with BP in a way that is consistent within the BP context that would be great.
