For the most part. You’d have to mention specific features and functions to know whether it matches all of the features you’re thinking of or not. There have been many people who have moved their ning network over to BuddyPress. Although, it depends on which features of Ning you think are important.
The BP Media plugin should cover most of the photo and video needs, but you’ll have to check it out to see if it has everything you want.
Jeff, what’s the solution then? Or how do we prevent this in the future? I read the ticket, but I’m at a loss. I’m encountering this problem right now, and I had to go into phpmyadmin to correct all the user_nicename fields to remove the -2 at the end. do we simply ask people not to put spaces in their usernames?
@junebob I agree it’s unfortunate, but this isn’t an error on other BP intalls. Just BP.org. Not to mention that most BP installs don’t have a million users the way BP.org does. I’m sure boone will eventually fix this too on BP.org.
good to hear! Aside from buddypress this is going to be the cornerstone of the next project I work on.
I just installed BuddyPress 1.2.6, and the plugin states that it is compatible to 1.2.4. Will it still work, and if not, what must I modify ? Also, do I need to have bbpress plugin installed also ? That is not mentioned in the readme.
@boonebgorges My plan has hit a snag. I am having trouble using what you gave me above to include more then one set of form markups. Let me explain…if I include something like
function bbg_extra_group_fields_markup() {
?>
he who has the last laugh… 
Hahahahaha, so much for the referral to that board then hnla, lol
Just my luck!
****Edit – found the new home for this, search pointed me to this thread and thought group was gone.***
Im still struggling to find a suitable solution to this, any ideas?
Thanks
So, looking through the forums, it appears you guys have been trying to find a solution for over 2 months for this. Is it really that complex? I can’t imagine any other bug that could be worse on buddypress, considering uploading an avatar is one of the first things new members do, and many people don’t like using external apps like gravatar.
It doesn’t really give a good first impression of buddypress.
I too am experienceing this problem.
buddypress Stylesheet is missing.
using WordPress 3.01 and BuddyPress 1.2.6
Continuing from this thread: need-to-display-real-names
This thread might provide you with useful background on user names: Is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names
There already exists the ability to set and use ‘Display Names’ is that not sufficient for your requirements.
@pcgs51 please don’t post questions twice it’s considered bad form and will not get attention any quicker and causes us unnecessary work.
Locking this thread please continue in the other one you started:
i-would-like-to-hide-my-members-usernames
I also have the same problem with reCAPTCHA
With wp 2.9.2 e bp 1.2.5.2 reCAPTCHA is not work !
@LPH2005
Thanks! The simple part was, well… simple. But I’m glad I got the beautiful in there too 
oh yeah, what Paul said. I may attempt a plug-in. Not a full fledged blog posting plug-in but more a notes type thing like on facebook.
Hi,
I have been trying to figure this out for sometime now. I would like the posts to be displayed in 2 columns. I have achieved this without
BuddyPress on another theme, but I can’t seem to figure it out on this.
Can anyone help me out please?
I need to display real names in my BP community. Actually I need to display “maiden names” because my site is an alumni site. There is a link in the extend section of this site but it is sort of a dead link. Something is wrong with it.
`http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-real-names/`
Any recommendations how to accomplish this? Thanks.
when is the release of the next version? I’ve been waiting to get the videos resized too!!
I have been testing buddypress. The new user registration goes smoothly. If the end user goes to work on the blog they created from the drop down menu (assume default buddypress theme), when they go to return to main domain they receive the WSOD. It appears to be a cookie issue: after working on .com/username/wp-admin they cannot return to the high-level domain.
The following solution only appears to work part of the time:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/blank-page-for-wp-adminblogphp
FYI: the multi-site function is set as subdirectory.
There is a second issue that may be related to the first. After the end user publishes a post, it does not appear in the blog stream.
Any help would be appreciated!