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Dear Toni,

don`t worry your community will survive
Go into dashboard, on top of the left side you find buddypress/ installation or something similar (my version is in German).
There you may activate the options “FRIENDS” and “Private Messages” again.
Best, Andidi

PS: About the blogs – I am lost there too

In the meantime, you might be able to use avatars if you upload rectangular shaped images and crop at that point. At least that works on my BP installation.

Check out Welcome Pack:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/

@gian-ava
yes i get error to when i did the changes….
Warning: Division by zero in /hsphere/local/home/mahzouni/mahzouni.com/appfactory/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 390

but awatars work… :S

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.3/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php
line 40-52

Avatar uploads will be fixed In the next point release, due out very very soon.

Try this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/avatar-cropping-after-upload-image-and-cropper-dont-appear-fails/#post-43770

I’m quite sure you can’t tack on just any component in the bp_is_active() function.

It should be like this:
if ( bp_is_active('profile') || bp_is_active('activity') || ... etc ) {

The easiest thing would be to list what you want publically available.

Here’s a function to build on:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

I agree – the disconnect between the activity stream commenting and everything else is a huge usability hole. It sucks. At the moment, my only solution is to disable commenting on those activity stream items (which you can with an existing radio button on the options page IIRC). That makes it more confusing for the user but at least we don’t “lose” replies.

@jivany Using Rich’s subplugin for Forum Extras allows Activity Stream replies to forum posts to appear inline with the actual comment in the forum thread. It is excellent as a workaround for this particularly glaring problem, but the fact that it (and all the other tweaks that we have to make) is necessary is in and of itself indicative of the interaction design issues we’re discussing.

Closing topic. Please contact Adam if you want to inquire about the job.

@Scotm (“Give me a P2 groupblog with a cleaned up groups feature and BuddyPress is relevant again…”)

That’s kinda where I’m trying to get to. Marius Ooms as well. One of my frustrations is that I can’t figure out how to put the ‘group blog home’ on the ‘group home’ page itself without breaking the Ajax. The connection between group and group blog is very unclear. Still need to work on that… Also managing all the different settings is unwieldy. This plugin helps, but it would be nice if it all was part of the core, integrated with better management.

I use it on Web2NewYork.com. You’d have to register to test it, which you’re welcome to do. The site is mostly for event registration. Members so far ignore the blog/group/posting features…

@Josef Try these plugins:

1 – http://www.primothemes.com/post/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/
2 – http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-redirect-to-profile-plugin-redirect-users-to-their-profile-on-login-on-buddypress-sites/

Yes I’m aware of Andy’s involvement in P2 and there are obviously elements of it in play in the activity stream. As you say, it comes across as useless in that context, but not so much if used as a primary community blog for a BP install. Just seems to me it was an obvious part of the solution that would ‘ground’ the community’s activity and provide a jumping off point for users into groups, etc. I can’t imagine it was overlooked either.

@xspringe You are correct. The BP interface should be designed for the end user. This keys off my peeve that BP is marketing itself as enabling social networking “out of the box”. Yes, it can but not without some tweaking for each specific site application. And I’m not talking about simple template colour choices or layout modifications.

If we look at Facebook or Twitter, both of these do the same basic thing once a user logs in. The user is taken to the page that has all of your friend’s/groups/pages/forums/etc. recent updates. This is a user-centric focus. It plugs the user directly into what they are interested in in the shortest period of time. It can be done with BP but it’s not the default. If it was the default, I think all of the other components would tie in nicely in a very intuitive way.

@Modemlooper I agree – the disconnect between the activity stream commenting and everything else is a huge usability hole. It sucks. At the moment, my only solution is to disable commenting on those activity stream items (which you can with an existing radio button on the options page IIRC). That makes it more confusing for the user but at least we don’t “lose” replies.

You do know that Andy (who’s the main BP dev) was one of the people who put together P2, right? I wouldn’t imagine that it was ‘overlooked’ precisely. In fact, that pretty much useless ‘What are you doing/Post something’ textarea on the Activity page was lifted directly from P2.

@Peterverkooijen

Sounds like your setup is exactly what I suggested many posts ago in this thread. P2 functionality was totally overlooked in the whole BuddyPress design but it seems to me to be a great fit. Give me a P2 groupblog with a cleaned up groups feature and BuddyPress is relevant again. Would like to see your example of this btw…

My vote goes towards adding a usability/interface design expert to the team. … I think buddypress should be designed for the average user and not for the average programmer.

This. Most definitely this.

My ONLY beef with the forums is it does not work like the activity stream. I would have it where the replies work just like on the activity stream. Somebody can post in the topic or reply to a post in the topic But each time somebody replies then that topic goes back to the top like a forum. Activity streams move too fast and things go under the fold too quickly for forum/ blog based discussions. Facebook fixed this problem by giving you the option to filter your news feed by popular topics. I suggest adding that to the activity stream as well as a last replied commented filter. So things that get replied to bump to top.

jivany is saying precisely what I was getting at. A ‘forum’ is not a specific tool or product: it is a way of structuring online conversation. I continue to argue that it is an essential one.

If I could rip bbPress out of BP and slot in Vanilla (for example) as the forum-interaction-service-provider and have it integrate nicely with the rest of the app, I’d do so in a freaking instant.