@djpaul oh boy – I was hoping you wouldn’t say that! 
Can you tell me why you are re-writing it, and if you’ve started any difficulties you’ve encountered.
Here is my initial db scheme with examples (initially visualized as a mysql table)
rating_id – auto-generated
object_id – id of object being rated. ie. post_id, group_id, bp_album image id, forum_post_id
object_type – type of thing beind rated. ie. group, blog post, album image, forum post
rater_user_id – the user_id of the person doing the rating (need to be logged in)
owner_user_id – the user id of the person who ‘owns’ the object being rated
rate_type – either ‘like’, ‘vote’ or ‘rate’.
rate_value – value of rating/like/vote. Like can only be ‘like’, vote is 1 or -1, rate can be range from 1 to 5.
date_rated
maybe I’m being too flexible with the different rate types and I should just stick to one type, such as Facebook style ‘Like’. but then that leaves out a lot of functionality for amazon and app store style ratings. it would be nice if these were consolidated in one area, but maybe too ambitious.
Looking again at custom post types/taxonomies I can see how the custom post type will be an individual rating, and the owner of that custom post type will be the rater. I can add a custom field for the user id of the object owner. It looks like the object_type would be a custom taxonomy, and the id of the object rated would be another custom field. The value of the rating could either be a custom field or maybe a taxonomy.
Should I be connecting up the object being rated or the object owner using custom taxonomies? if yes, then I’m having trouble visualizing that.
thanks!
I know i’ve seen this topic before…I just did a search https://buddypress.org/search/?f=default+activity
@msullens88
Thanks- I stumbled across that the other day. I wish it weren’t a core change. Guess we can’t have it all.
Be well
Thanks! Changing the caps was pretty easy. Good job commenting out your stuff by the way!
Ok – so you’re going to your profile’s private message, compose; what type of search term do you enter in the name field? Do you get any autocompletion results (an AJAX script ought to be running)? Does the search term match up to a particular user?
Just trying to understand where it’s falling out. BuddyPress private messaging doesn’t use email addresses.
Paul – we are using the standard WP user account usernames for login, not email addresses. I didn’t do the original WP install, but I checked the wp-config file and I didn’t see anything relating to compatibility mode.
Have a look at how capabilities are granted in models/events.php—you can grant the required caps to subscribers too. Or, there’s an event_creator role that’s just meant for this—in the wordpress admin area, you could make the default user role Event Creator, and also bulk modify the existing user capabilities to event_creator.
Brajesh has the plugin on his site: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-chat/
wpmudev.org has a chat plugin.. not sure how it works tho
I haven’t confirmed whether standard WordPress notifications are being delivered to email addresses with country code extensions. I’ll give that a try and report back.
Would it be possible to give permission to create events to all Subscribers (new and old) ? I’d like to enable event creation by default for all logged in BP users. I’ve fiddled around with wp.php without any success… Any ideas? Thanks @kunalb! Looking forward to the next version!
you may try bowob.com – quite nice chat module – very similar to FB chat and some interesting config options.
It has both free and paid versions.
Good luck
Boone, thanks for the feedback.
I’m still a bit hesitant to use custom post types. Maybe the query powers are good enough but in some cases where I want to get meta information about all ratings, won’t I run into problems when my data is separated into the posts table and the posts_meta table. I’ll have to do some complex joins and what not. But if I make a custom DB table, I can just use GROUP BY or DISTINCT to get what i need quite quickly. I’m thinking of stuff like Highest Rated XYZ or Most Rated ABC. These things won’t fit so well into the custom post type/custom taxonomy mould. Any more thoughts on this?
@djpaul – I see in your (totally awesome) achievements plugin, that you use a few custom db tables. Do you have any thing to add regarding your choices. I’m thinking this ‘Rate everything’ is more akin to that plugin.
Also, I’m thinking this plugin will be a bit more like Facebook ‘Like’ than an actual star Rating. but we’ll see what comes out in the end.
You can add the following line to your wp-config.php file the tell WP where your wp-content folder is located.
`define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/path/to/your/wp-content’ );`
Make sure you leave off the trailing slash. That may fix things, and it’s an easy fix/test.
Nevermind! I was actually able to fix it by going into wp-config.php and making sure that the BP_ROOT_BLOG was set up with the right blog ID. I had a ‘9’ instead of a ’10’ 
Child themes don’t restrict anything. You can have a child theme that completely overwrites the parent theme’s code. The idea behind a child theme is that it allows uniformity, and something for plugin authors to count on when it comes to hooks and such.
Also, most of the changes you’d like to see are changes that would need to happen in core, with minimal code changes to the theme, and a few of them would be doable as plugins.
This may also be a problem with your hosting. Make sure to set the correct permissions in your wp-content folder.
How would I go about starting to check up on my multisite set up?
few things I’d like to change :
if you’re looking at your own profile then you should see friends activity as default instead of your own,makes more sense to me.
comments on your own activity should not repeat as activity in your own stream.
allow users to delete and filter comments and @ mentions on their profile. that way users can delete unwanted comments and @ mentions (SPAM)
if user is not your friend then he should not be able to comment on your activity stream.
and of course privacy settings are very important.
Few other cool things are ,you may know this user and birthday notifications.
No,I don’t want to prove you wrong,it’s just my opinion.
You can do what you, but I think there’s not much scope other than post formats for any more changes to the theme on the upcoming release cycle. If you want to prove me wrong, I suggest making some mockups before you start writing code.
You will find that currently as things stand all themes for BP are in effect child themes, themeing for BP is not quite the same as themeing for WP. I am presently working through a new theme or at least framework it replaces all theme files , referencing only the JS files in essence, yet many of the files will remain structurally pretty similar, but that is the framework for then tweaking the UX and UI to something that one prefers, then you start to have to get involved in filtering actions and playing around with template tags where you are able.
This is as different as one is able to take a BP theme I tend not to think of it as a child theme or a re-skining but in truth it is technically a child theme if one was to be accurate about it.
The bp default theme is probably past it’s sell by date somewhat and there has been vague talk about setting to and developing the next generation theme so give it a go.
@bgrun80 No worries mate, glad I could be of assistance!
just another BP child theme?
no man 
all those child themes look the same,can’t believe people waste their time on developing that kind of things.
The default theme needs improvements as well,lot’s of things makes no sense to me and it’s kinda messy.
Especially activity stream.
