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I plan to do much the same as @jeffsayre is; that is, using the groups here for support and announcements.

I’ve already looked it over. What my statement above is saying is that BuddiPhone is not a “mobile” theme for for a Buddypress network in the general sense. It’s more like an application. You’ll understand more when I get a preview up.

WPTouch is a plugin, but it includes mobile themes, @modemlooper.

I just tried adding some of the BP templates like /activity/ etc. in the WP Touch theme, and it works.
Obviously, it needs some cleaning up to make it look pretty on mobiles! But try it yourself.

WPTouch is for a blog / comment system only. It is not a mobile theme for a social network or a forum. BuddiPhone is not really a mobile version of a site per se but a theme that mimics a native iPhone application. Think Facebook iPhone app compared to the actual Facebook website. It doesn’t include everything, it includes what you need in a streamlined way to get the important content.

I’ve had to start from scratch a few times and rethink the navigation because the current Buddypress workflow doesn’t work on a mobile at all. It’s just too complex for a small screen. So I’ve had to break it apart and write “screens” that give you an easy to read and navigable system.

I noticed “add friend” was replaced by “follow.”
Andy Peatling addressed this somewhere on testbp.org. The upshot is that “follow” is an additional module, not a replacement for “friend” (though you are right, on this site, friending is now disabled in favor of following, which I like a lot).

“Post something to xxx”
This actually should be described more clearly. It is ambiguous whether you are posting something to them privately or publicly (until you try it out).

+1

“Can some elightened soul explain to us simple mortals how can we achieve sitewide search …”
+5… it is awesome!

I would like that too. It seems to me I read the description in a plugin but I’ve looked at so many I can’t remember which one.

It still applies, @jwack .

@nightlygigs – I’m probably not going to be working on this right away. I’d check out @modemlooper ‘s BuddiPhone theme – which is close to production status.

Check out the following group dedicated to iPhone BP themes:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/iphone-ipad-themes/

Links in emails when someone replys on the activity stream aren’t working, just redirect to the activity stream.

Please, please re-enable Forum Index.

I used to be able to check in many times per day and automatically figure out what discussions were new/updated. Now the site seems very balkanized and hard to follow.

The amount of traffic on buddypress.org/forums (now /community) is still low enough that a “snapshot” view of forum topics makes sense.

Case in point: it took me 2 days to find this thread, whereas on the old site, I would have seen the new thread pop up right away at the top of the forum index page.

Can some elightened soul explain to us simple mortals how can we achieve sitewide search and group meta ? In plain english would be even better…

Hi ipstenu, I have used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ in an install with community similar to what you posted above with success

@novicer – Try using the BP Template Pack plugin with your WP theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

@guigoz – Try this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/buddypress-org-theme-differences-from-bp-default-theme/

Forum topics get bumped up in the sitewide activity stream after editing the forum topic.

This doesn’t happen on testbp.org.

No problem, @agrundner!