@paulhastings
There is a lot of pressure from the top of the food chain to move past classic theme. This is evident in the fact that classic theme will not even ship with 1.2 and has been relegated to the backwards compatibility plugin.
@NGO
Thanks for reporting that feed link bug, I have fixed it in trunk. I am not following what you mean regarding the comments issue.
@Gpo1
Auto-embedding refers to embedding content from the URL that is submitted. There is no support for automatic adding of all of a user’s content from a remote service.
@David Angel
Awesome! Are you running WP single or MU?
@Dwenaus
One other person has reported a similar problem, I am looking into it. Do you have BP installed in a sub directory of the document root by any chance?
@Everyone
This beta seems to be broken for quite a few people. However, geoffm33 has it working at 95% on a single WP install, and David Angel has it running as well, so there is probably some kind of install-specific issue that needs to be worked out. I will do my best to get to the bottom of it and put out another beta ASAP.
In the meantime, you might want to try the development version which I have updated today with some fixes that might work for some of you that are having problems. It also might make things worse, so have courage!
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-links.zip
I haven’t tried Cometchat, but the demo is quite impressive. Integration with groups would be killer.
Forgot to mention that you’ll need to modify Bowob if you want BP display names shown instead of usernames.
Also chat data for Bowob, Footerchat and Webbychat resides on their servers. So if that’s an issue, you might not want to use these scripts.
Well, it might. All those strings you translate get put into memory at run-time. 20Mb is extremely small for a WordPress/BuddyPress site especially if on a shared server.
Plus, BuddyPress isn’t supported on WordPress 3.0-alpha because, obviously, it’s in alpha. WordPress 3.0-alpha might have huge memory leaks which could be giving you this problem. I would urge you to stick to WP or WPMU 2.9.* for now
ray – wow – cometchat sounds and looks really nice. Haven’t seen something like that before… Did you try it, would you recommend it? Our users would “die” to have a chat like that!
– does it really integrate with the BP stuff like members, avatars, members-online, friends etc…?
The achievements solves part of the user activity issue. but the other issue about rating is still open. Does anyone know of any reputation or Karma plugin for buddypress. I guess it matters mostly around the forum. I found a plugin for bbpress https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-reputation/ and also there is intense debate for blog comments.
I will be needing this, so any advice on how to go forward to write or adapt a plugin would be incredibly helpful.
hi, I am using WPMU 2.9.1.1 with BP rc2 with the default theme and I get the following results:
under my account -> links I see the links page, but it says only ‘There were no links found.’ there is no way to add a link.
if I click on the links link on the top menu I get ‘Page Not Found’
Thanks! Glad you find it useful! 
So report it as a bug for 1.2 on https://trac.buddypress.org/. Bug reports are extremely unlikely to be picked up from this forum.
Running smoothly here so far: http://appleusers.net/links
That’s a really great plugin Sarah and I really enjoy your posts and find them very informative. Keep up the good work!
Hrrm… That’s interesting, but the thing about my issue is that I would like to default to user_login and not user_nicename (user_nicename is causing the problem).
From your fix, I’d simply have to imagine that it should already be doing what I want, but it doesn’t. It attempts to always put in user_nicename.
It’s very confusing. It’s also very disappointing. BuddyPress seemed to have promise for a few applications at my university, but I’m not going to be able to use it effectively without being able to use usernames that essentially look like emails (they would be Shibboleth eppns).
I don’t get it, why is BuddyPress such a pain about usernames? If BuddyPress is a WordPress Mu plugin, it should work with any username that is valid in WordPress… I can only assume this is some kind of bug within BuddyPress itself, and I’ll continue treating it as such.
Title of what, where? Also please put bug reports on https://trac.buddypress.org/
r-a-y is correct, thank you.
Just create a new page with a blog or any other template. That will then display along with the links to the BuddyPress pages when Activity Stream is displayed on the front page.
Hi Andrea,
many thanks for your comment.
it seems the “Multi-Site-Plugin” works with subdomains only ?
Is there a chance to get this working with real domains, say if I do have 5 different domains and want to run 5 WPMU-installations with ONE user-table ?
hmm… just wondering whether the Multi-Site-Plugin will work with WP 3.0 when merged with WPMU ?
These are all that I’m aware of:
Cometchat is working on a BuddyPress integration with friends support. It’s a paid script.
http://www.cometchat.com/
Bowob Chat works, but does not have a friend feature, also you might get the plugin author’s ads on your site. Free (w/ ads).
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bowob/
Footerchat is another possibility, again, it has no friends support and you will get some ads occasionally. Free (w/ ads).
http://www.footerchat.com/
Webbychat is another. Has a basic free option, which only supports up to 10 users. Variable paid options are available. You’ll have to manually configure the script to work with BP.
http://webbychat.com
a 500 error is generic and it could mean that you have other issues with your host. Wanna share the url or host? try deactivating all other plugins first and try again. I take it that your site is returning after this error?
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-us-help-you
what flavor wordpress and what setup on your server?
You’re best to file this as an enhancement ticket on trac.buddypress.org
hmmm isn’t this considered a problem? I run an indie game development site for 12 years now and it’s time to refresh it. But, since I’m planning to add some features that are not by default in buddypress, I can’t just switch to the default BP, it wouldn’t make any sense for most of the users. Still, I have to test the features to introduce…
…I will use a subdomain by sure now, maybe it will help a little.
At most eventually we will use a redirect 
I had the same problem. Using modifications from trunk (https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/2620) has solved it.
