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+1 for the support group and other group types

@gian-ava, if you’re on a cheap shared-host then there’s a possibility that could slow your website down, a lot. With a sudden rise in users and activity on a shared-host your site is bound to take a lot of strain, because of the limited resources that is dedicated to your site from your hosting company.

There is always a possibility of your site being hacked. I’m not too sure how likely this is otherwise it would be a widespread issue across buddypress.org.

For the unusual characters, I would set the encoding of your WordPress to Unicode(UTF8),
1. Make sure you are logged in as admin
2. In the admin dashboard, go to Settings > Reading
3. In the text box next to “Encoding for pages and feeds” insert “UTF-8” without the exclamation marks.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-badge/
Goes to a support forum?

Edit: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-maps/
Goes to a different plugin?

Hi, I’m new here. Any updates on this? How do I put this on the default template? I’ve tried using the codes above on the index but it won’t show up. Thanks

I’m running WordPress 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.2.1 by the way.

@anointed Yep, you’re right. Hitting this link to get to page two of the Gallery forum, for example, fails. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/gallery/forum/?p=2&n=20

Also, the new comprehensive search is sooooo much better than before. WANT!

OK, because I’ve been moaning so much, I will say that the ajax filter by clicking on a tag in the cloud, filtering the view of every section in /support, is kind of nice.

One thing I’d love to know how to do is get that ‘Click here to clear the filter’ item in the sidebar, too…

points for adding friends would also be cool

@foxly good stuff ~ and at this time I’m making a decision between the gallery plugin available elsewhere and your BPAlbum+ plug in. It sounds like you are adding in lots of great functions and are committed to developing it out so I’m leaning in your direction (we actually had trouble getting gallery one to work to boot , What I’d like to see:

Support for other media (which you have coming) and ability to sort by media type
Create multiple albums with names and album descriptions (a la facebook)
Tagging pictures with user id a la facebook

~ Gratitude for your work ~ really liking this plug-in ~ Beauty ~

@foxly I’m about to launch a new site here which will have a lot of usage right off the bat. At this point BPAlbum+ is installed and seems to be working ~ can you please share with me either in this thread or by DM whatever you share with @hotforwords as I feel a picture plug-in is critical feature, not having bugs is also critical ~

Gratitude ~

@bplove I renamed most components — Forums –> Discussions, Topic —> Discussion, for example, and renamed most navigation elements to make the way that things fit together clearer. At the moment, the way things are named is awfully counterintuitive, I think, and a thread I started many months back about rethinking it didn’t get any traction, so shrug.

I trimmed down and redesigned the forums list to change the balance a little more towards useability over prettiness, used @3sixty‘s last-read plugin with some changes to save last-read time to the database so users could switch browsers and computers and not lose their last-read time, changed pagination and added pagination divs at top and bottom (just done today, here, I think), added a link to the last-post in a thread from the front, hacked BP-Like to work with Forums (changing the verbiage to ‘Thank’ rather than ‘Like’ which my users are used to), added favoriting to forum threads, used Rich’s Forums extras plugin to add a Forum index and allow activity-stream replies to forum posts to show up inline with the forum posts themselves, added oembed, attachments, and an HTML toolbar to the textareas in forums, added quoting with some changes (to allow quoting selected text only in a post — still working on that one — and to allow nested quoting) using Rich’s tools, made stickies always sticky on the forum front page rather than just the group forums, shrank avatars and rejiggered layout inthread and about a hundred other changes large and small, all either my ideas or requests and demands from my userbase.

The current implementation of BBpress is weak sauce, but it can be massaged with an awful lot of work to be adequate.

I reckon that the /support/topics page should be looking a lot more like this, for useability: http://forum.buddypress-it.it/

@stwc I’m interested in what changes you made in language file and beefing up forum. About to launch out a new community here and forums are the big weakness right now for sure ~ bbpress needs some bplove !

I am shocked, however, that Andy left on the Activity stream Reply function for forum posts which which, by design, bifurcate the support conversations due to those users who live more in the Activity stream than Groups

I use etivite-rich’s @nuprn1 (man I wish he had an easier username to remember, display and ‘real’ username) subplugin for Activity stream replies to forum posts that show up inline (ajax-expandable) to the forum posts themselves. It’s perfect, and keeps the conversation from fracturing. Preserves hierarchy in replies, too.

Don’t expect @andy‘s going to do that here, though.

What @mikepratt said is exactly right, though. I’m looking forward to seeing some serious useability changes as a result of using the current BP here. As it stands, and much as I think BP is great stuff, I think it’s a poor fit for the purpose. I am very sympathetic to my users’ concerns and complaints during a recent alpha run with BP for an existing community, even more than I was before, about being confused about how the parts fit together (until I seriously changed things around, changed terminology with the language file, and beefed up forums functionality a lot).

It’s the activity stream loop you’re after.

Check out this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

@jcandothers – there is already a ticket about this:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2341

Please note your patch in that ticket. Login with the same credentials you use here on bp.org.

Yeah, I hate iframes myself! Only a last resort thing!

Ahh okay, you got me! @3sixty!

Nice find again! The activity permalinks for forum posts are indeed truncated, me thinks this could be a case of limiting hacking attempts via long URLs.

@thekmen – I’d say you’re ‘on topic’. The new bp.org can’t be used to support plugins until there is a common understanding of how bp.org is organized and operating.

Very happy (in a misery loves company kind of way) to read these posts. I’m having trouble understanding the flow of content on the new buddypress.org. You’d think it would be fairly intuitive given I host a bp site and have been a frequent visitor of the old bp layout. I agree that Activity Stream reply’s to forum posts should be disabled. Where are we posting comments / reporting bugs / asking and answering questions about specific plugins? Plugins now have group pages but there is no group forum. Are we supposed to post Everything on the Group’s Activity Page? That doesn’t seem to lend itself to efficient/effective archiving of various topics and discussions. Maybe we’re still in the early transition stage and I missed the memo explaining ‘who’s on first’. If I did miss an ‘overview’ post about the new bp.org, please point me to it.