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If it’s a bug, or it takes effort, you won’t get an answer for a very long time if ever.

The raw solution:
Go to bp-friends/bp-friends-template.php and comment the whole case “is_friend” between line 329 and 344.

The better solution:
rewrite the function bp_get_add_friend_button who contains the switch given in the above solution and put it in your child theme’s function file.

Untested, but try this:

`
add_action (‘xprofile_updated_profile’, ‘profile_change_notify’);
function profile_change_notify ($id, $posted_field_ids, $errors) {
$global $wpdb;

if( $errors )
return;

$names = ”;

foreach( (array)$posted_field_ids as $field_id ) {
$sql = ” SELECT name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = ‘$field_id’ “;
$name = $wpdb->get_var( $sql );
if( $name == ‘Country’ || $name == ‘City’ )
$names .= ‘ ‘ . $name;

}

if( $names != ” ) {
$user = new WP_User ($id);
wp_mail (‘myname@mydomain.com’, ‘Subject ( ‘ . $user->user_login . ‘ just updated the Profile )’, $names);
}
}
`

Blimey. I’d like to reassure that there’s no conspiracy theory (but I would say that, right?), nor is the BuddyPress.org team ignoring posts on these forums. We are all volunteers, and we only have so much time that we can contribute. This thread is not heading in a constructive direction so I am going to close it.

Mercime’s answer above was good as any. It takes a lot of effort from lots of people to try to prevent spam. This thread talks about user registration spam and activity spam. In our next version of BuddyPress, 1.6, Akismet is integrated into Activity Stream. We have this running on testbp.org and it seems to be doing a decent job at helping.

See Registration -> BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

BuddyPress Links plugin has not been updated for BP 1.5. To gain access to your wp-admin, you have to disable BuddyPress Links in wp-content/plugins/buddypress-links by renaming the folder to e.g. wp-content/plugins/buddpress-links-xxx

99% of the time, each theme has a unique resolution for Step 3 of the BP Compatibility process. So no, the different codes we posted in https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ for different WP themes.

Initial scan shows that for your theme, you only need to create two files to make the layout compatible.

sp12, you should be using the Sufusion BuddyPress Pack plugin with the Suffusion theme rather than the BP Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/suffusion-buddypress-pack/

We should. Please make an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org/. You can use your username and password from this site.

@Tina but isn’t it interesting that they supposedly have so many people keeping an eye open for spammers but so many important posts go unanswered. LOL I’m calling BS on that one. A completely unused Buddypress site is having new registrations and posts on average of every 5 minutes and sometimes less. But yet this site is virtually spam free. What’s the secret? Why can’t Akismet block the Buddypress spam?

Suggest you hire someone with server expertise if you’re talking about that scale. It’s cheaper than trying to scrape together advice from forums.

100k users, one at a time, is different from 100k users visiting your site at the same time. It’s a question of concurrency, really, and what your requirements are about server redundancy and failover.

Whatever runs WordPress at this level, will run BuddyPress.

This was cross-posted on BP trac, and the answer was provided at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4232

You need to make your WordPress theme compatible with BuddyPress by installing the “BP Template Pack” plugin then go through Appearance > BP Compatibility.
– https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

To put your issues in context
WP/BP versions? Theme used? Plugins used? basically … https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

I was also surprised to discover that when a user is marked as a spammer, no action is taken to delete or hide the messages they have sent from users.

When a user is marked as a spammer, surely Buddypress should prevent all other users from seeing messages they have sent? Can this be added to a future version?

I’m testing buddypress on IIS and getting the same error – does anyone know how to resolve this in IIS instead of Apache?

Do not post duplicate threads: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/disable-viewing-info-on-friends-of-friends/

BuddyPress won’t be trying to load itself twice (the redefine errors), so something must be triggering part of that. It’s either BP Docs, or another BuddyPress plugin or customisation that you have.

If you disable BPDocs, what goes away?

Please also note Boone’s comment on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4191