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I think the comparison, in that case, would be wordpress vs. drupal, and then drupal social vs. buddypress…

I could be wrong, but this is technically your second major plugin.

Any tips on getting bp-events 1.1 working with BuddyPress 1.1? Or is it simply not finished?

I installed it fine but it’s somewhat broken. For instance, nothing shows up on the event detail pages. The content area is just blank. Anyway, if it’s still in development… that’s fine. I’m just trying to figure out the status… is it’s just not done or it I didn’t install it properly.

@philbow

I totally agree, this feature should be made more visible and being availabe at nearly all pages….

First, great job to everyone involved! I do have a question/observation.

Playing around with the testbp site, I notice that the status form is not visable. You need to click the current status to create a new “status post”. I’m wondering why it’s not always shown, like on all the other sites that use this feature?

I love this feature, but fear it won’t get used because users won’t realize that it is there (or how to get to it).

Not in the RC, use the final.

I just downloaded and upgraded to 1.1RC, yet I still don’t see some of the functions, specifically “bp_is_profile_component”

@bobblegom I am BP all the way but shouldn’t you compare Google Trends on “drupal” vs “buddypress” not “drupal social” ?

@candydate I just see the release of 2.7, 2.8 all the way to 2.8.4, all of @donncha’s hard work and the aforementioned community buzz and conclude that the wp community is not moving slowly.

I run a BP community of USMA alumni and not only is it stable but they generally love it. I am more of a hack than true coder and I have had no issues. It is def a serious professional grade tool. The ease of customization alone (I have many friends who run Drupal sites and it’s always fun to hear them defend the arcane way Drupal does things.

WP and BP have a lot of growth ahead and they are by no means perfect but the openness and willingness to change and grow is evident (just see any IRC chat with all the developers)

Happy to answer more specific questions on resource requirements and what you were not able to learn from your dummy site.

Here’s Andy’s announcement post about the just-released BuddyPress version 1.1. I think it speaks volumes about the current state and future health of the WPMU + BP community.

There is some hate in that linky, wow!

Which BP version are you using?

This is fixed in BuddyPress1.1.

I’m closing this topic since there is another one announcing the official release. Please route your responses here going forward.

If you are using 1.1rc or 1.1 trunk, then that should happen automatically for you once you turn on and configure the group forums.

If not, and if you’re using an unmodified version of BuddyPress 1.0, upgrading to 1.1 would be the easiest way.

Is MultiSite plugin suitable for such purpose? That would be awesome.

I’m also looking for a solution to set up individual buddypress instances with different languages but with the same user base. So a user who has registered on http://www.domain.org would also be able to log in on http://de.domain.org.

Sure the user has to enter his profile details again for each language version he choose, but he can use one username and password to get logged in o whatever language version he wants.

This would be similar on what wikipedia is doing. They have different instances of mediawiki for each language, but you can change between these instances without an additional log in.

not sure if this is associated with “Multi-Language”:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/771#comment:5

that´s what I have been looking for.

Hope this will make it into BP-core ?

Andy is making changes to buddypress.org including forums and documents. Should be find by tomorrow.

@Candydate, i have a similar reflexion and my first choice is Drupal (+ plugins) to create that “community site i dream off”.

I discovered BP very recently, i’m not an expert but my reflexions tell me now that :

– I will be able to do all i want with drupal with many plugins and customization

– i will be able to do all i want with BP with less plugins and customization

Why ?

Just because the core features i want (friends, groups, networks, wall, …) are in BP and not in Drupal.

Maybe you should create your roadmap v1.0, 2.0, …. and just compare what feature comes naturaly with each solution.

About the WP/WPMU/BP discussion, i’m not afraid of that, i just look at the popularity of WP

and how excited the community is about BP.

Edit : Google trends about ‘drupal social’ vs buddypress : http://www.google.fr/trends?q=drupal+social%2C+buddypress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

@knight_

BuddyPress v1.1–shipping shortly!–has an entirely new avatar cropper. It should solve the issues you are currently having with 1.0.3.

Regarding your 3rd question, the “Delete Account” feature works fine in all versions of BP. I assume you are logging into your BP install as the Site Admin. If so, that is why you do not see this feature.

If the Site Admin where allowed to delete their account–and actually did so–it would be very problematic. So, BP checks to see if the current viewing users is the Site Admin, and if it is, it does not render the “Delete Account” submenu under “Settings”.

1) 2) is solved in BP 1.1. see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/better-avatar-crop-function

3) Well I wanted to refer to the user settings, where the user-delf-delete checkbox was in 1.0.3. But in 1.1 Ican’t find it anymore even though the self deletion is activated in buddypress’ backend settings. What happended to it?

4) The simplest way would be CSS (the activity remains in the code, though)

The one thing I’m wondering about, once 1.1 drops (looking forward to tomorrow, Andy!), is how my users (if the site I’m building takes off) will adjust to the overall way of thinking that Buddypress (and social apps in general these days) tend to bring to the fore.

What I mean is that the interaction model is more things-are-presented-to-me and less I-am-searching-for-things. The way my brain works, I tend to organize myself mentally in the latter way — I want to find a piece of information or a conversation or a comment or something, and am hungry for a clear way to get to it. A more static way of viewing the structure, I guess. I’m old.

But Buddypress and (to pick an example, Facebook) are more about the ‘flow’, I think. About jumping in and having ‘oooh shiny!’ moments, and moving more fluidly through the web of interactions.

They’re both perfectly good ways of organizing things, of course, and for the tasks at hand, Buddypress is great. I guess my worry is that it will be confusing for users when it comes to things like forums and the traditional architecture of them, but I’m hoping that with 1.1 it will all come together smoothly. I’m really excited about the future of the app and WP in general, and very hopeful that the site I’m working on (which I’ll pimp when it’s ready, of course) will gather a vibrant userbase. The community I’m targetting really needs it.

Edit: reading this which is, I guess hot-off-the-presses doco, I’m thinking running a traditional forum using bbpress alongside the group-attached forums might be an option, if it’s not too confusing. I’m guessing it’d be pretty easy to port the Buddypress styling over to the ‘sidecar’ forums to make it all look right… we’ll see!

Hey, thanks. You are great!!! I was looking for the same