Reply To: Activity Streams in Page and Groups
buddypress and bbpress
Two completely different apps/plugins, bbpress is a forum plugin that integrates with BP groups if desired. Activity streams are designed to try and record and display as much site activity as possible. Commenting on items in the activity stream such as forum entries has always had issues and the advice and best practise generally has been to disable commenting on such items in the activity stream in order to avoid this confusion.
I don’t write code and I think that this needs to be set up with backend controls so that people like me can use it. Otherwise, you should have a notice saying that BuddyPress and BBPress are only useful to programmers.
Uttered out of frustration!. Sorry but BP does a lot out of the box but works best when taken and modified to suit the individual site. You always have the option of learning some level of coding ability, stating you don’t want to learn code somewhat limits your ability to use and manage these apps really, it’s not simply a case that they MUST be written for absolute non coders, these are open source apps that represent thousands of hours of work that people get to use for gratis, expecting more than that a little unfair? Also both these two plugins really do do a remarkable job of working out of the box with both teams having put a lot of effort in on that side of things (too much imho)
