Check out http://www.buddyboss.com/demo. The theme has a built-in Facebook Wall. It doesn’t allow for picture uploads but it works just like a Facebook wall and you can add videos in via oEmbed. Full disclosure: I built that theme.
@josh101. @mentions are confusing to 99% of users, for real. I have built lots of client sites and literally *every* client asks me WTF are @mentions. I tell them how it works and they say why doesn’t it just work like Facebook, and I pretty much have no response because I agree with them. Hence, http://www.buddyboss.com 
I have long thought BuddyPress was confusing, and so I decided to take on the task of building a theme that would solve every issue I have with BuddyPress. It can be downloaded at http://www.buddyboss.com.
1. Groups and Forums are combined in an INTUITIVE way on my theme. It finally makes sense!
2. @mentions are gone. In their place is a TRUE Facebook wall on every profile. Post on friend’s profiles and status updates with threaded comments. You’ve got to try it to see how sweet it is
3. Stripped out all of the nonsense that adds to BuddyPress’ general chaos, and what’s left is a simple and enjoyable experience.
Try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It combines groups and forums in a way that is MUCH more intuitive than the default BuddyPress setup, no hacking required. I think a big issue with BuddyPress is that the layout of groups and forums is usually confusing to people. We’ve fixed that
Here’s the answer! It has always frustrated me how @mentions work in BuddyPress as I find it chaotic and confusing for users. So I built a theme that converts the @mentions system into a TRUE Facebook wall with post to profile and threaded replies. If you every need to, at any time you can deactivate our Wall Component from the dashboard and your content will revert to @mentions, You can download the theme at http://www.buddyboss.com.
Yes. The BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com has a true Facebook-style wall built in. It converts @mentions into an intuitive wall posting system with threaded replies.
I created a theme that comes with a true Facebook wall. It converts all @mentions into Wall posts that can be replied to and threaded on your profile and is extremely intuitive to use, and it makes use of some of the code in R-a-y’s plugin. You can get it at http://www.buddyboss.com.
You might want to try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It has a built in Wall on user profiles. Images and video can be added via oEmbed for BuddyPress, and the wall functions like a true Facebook wall in terms of how the conversation flows. It converts @mentions into wall posts so the BP Gallery plugin could potentially be integrated if you know what you’re doing.
I suggest that you take advantage of BuddyBase theme dev’s forums or download a copy of the theme and re-upload manually via FTP or cpanel etc.
http://www.buddyboss.com/forum/
EDIT – on second thought after seeing their forums, I suggest re-uploading copy of theme since something got lost in a revision or file transmission. It should look like the demo http://www.buddyboss.com/buddybase/the-museum-of-science-and-industry/
You could possible use the group docs plugin or create your own component or even use something like gravity forms.
http://www.buddyboss.com/bp-group-documents-buddypress-plugin-review
Here’s an example of a BP recipe site http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/
With the help of r-a-y, we put up a tutorial on how to set up a single bbPress forum without doing a separate install. The drawback is it still uses a Group, and it means you won’t be able to use Groups for other purposes while this is in place. The upside is it’s fully integrating bbPress, so whenever the updated plugin comes out you’ll be in good shape.
How to set up a single bbPress forum with BuddyPress
@daveamos —
We at buddyboss.com just started using the CustomPress plugin by wpmudev.org — http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custompress . It lets you easily set up custom post types and custom fields in WP admin. So far, I’m absolutely loving it.
I was pumped when I first heard about WP 3.0’s custom post type functionality, and THIS is what I assumed would be coming. I’m not a programmer, so I need a UI to set up custom post types. This lets you name a custom post type, choose where it falls in the WP admin menu, pick the icon, pick the fields and editable areas that will display, and create custom fields that will be requested on any post type. It also lets you create custom taxonomies, which I haven’t used yet.
It makes WP/BP into fully legit CMS, rather than a blogging platform flexible enough to be used as a CMS. This will be seeing its way into a lot of our client projects.
Matt O’Brien
@hcleary
Please try upgrading to the newest version of the theme, which you can download at buddyboss.com. If you have an old version (from a week or two ago) there was a bug with this exact issue.
Here’s what you do:
Install s2member, and then in s2member settings go to General Options > URI Access Restrictions. If you add /groups/ as a URI fragment, all URLs with /groups/ will be restricted to logged in users. If you add /groups/create/ then anyone can see groups but only logged in users can create new ones, etc. You can do the same thing with /activity/ and /forums/.
I wrote up a really detailed article about integrating s2member and BuddyPress over here: http://www.buddyboss.com/how-to-set-up-recurring-billing-subscriptions-in-buddypress/
