[Andy Peatling]

In the latest build it is a forced monster ID if there is no user uploaded avatar. This will be user configurable in the future.

[Famous]

With the latest files it works now, thanks.

[angel_couk]

I get an erros saying I am not authorised to put in a ticket

Edited to say forget it, finally after searching and searching i found out to use my WP sign in..

Things are so higgledypiggledy here, why have a forum if we have a bug ticket? Just have on or the other surely? So hard to find information

[Trent Adams]

Andy has tossed around a few ideas about having the solution you are looking at as an option. There is a thread in these forums that is pretty recent.

[Famous]

Keeping on this post, how do I get my posts authors to show up as a monster or random image? Cause when I look at them now they show up as a question mark.?. when users don’t upload a pic. I set my setting to monsters in my admin, does that mean every user thereafter will receive a monster pic?

[Simon]

Ah ha! Scratch my last… Seems I was having a slow brain morning All sorted on the Gravatar front!

[Phlux0r]

Thanks Andy! We’ll be looking at the forum and other BP parts later. By then you may have released the first stable version… but good to know that the integration with BBPress is taking shape.

[gogoplata]

I’ve integrated bbPress with WPMU to share user logins (couldn’t get cookies to work unfortunately) and was preparing to launch them both this week. Should I hold off on launching bbPress until you’ve integrated it more fully, or would I be okay using the system as I have it now and simply adding the BuddyPress forum functionality down the road.

Thanks!

[ron_r]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=45

[Michael Berra]

Sorry, i just found that post: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=54

[gogoplata]

I downloaded Opera but can’t seem to replicate the problems, though I did customize the logo as I outlined here. Might be worth trying that out to see if it solves the issues.

[gogoplata]

Glad you found and shared a temporary workaround. This was also brought up in another topic recently, and Andy said “In the first version for the end of the year, BuddyPress will only support open networks. However, the plan is to put together a generic privacy component which can be used by all components to restrict and allow customizable privacy levels.”.

Privacy isn’t built in yet but it will be soon enough.

[Burt Adsit]

Have you people been hangin’ out at COLOURlovers.com? My avatar in the forum looks like one of their fun patterns.

http://www.colourlovers.com/

Burt

[Andy Peatling]

Thanks for the feedback. Please post bugs in the bug repo:

https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Log in with the same login you used for the forum.

[gogoplata]

There are also user online plugins for bbPress for those who have integrated forums and are looking for other alternatives, though the one I linked above definitely works with MU.

I’m looking forward to the chat plugin duanestorey. I’ve hosted chat rooms before but it’d be nice to have one that ties into the MU/BuddyPress login system.

[Huda Toriq]

Same idea here https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-92 , where Andy linked to this topic .

I think we need to discuss more about it.

We can handle such URL like http://domain.com/andypeatling/home or http://domain.com/user/andypeatling simply by customizing the home theme. Instead of using another theme for the home base, let the home theme handle it.

I hope the other components have enough flexibility to be used in such way.

[Andy Peatling]

For number 2 see: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26

Number 1 is not possible right now, but a plugin could be written for this.

[Andy Peatling]

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for number 5.

The rest of them are a no at the moment, but plugins could be created to add all of your desired functionality.

[Andy Peatling]

Possibly, but it does rely heavily on the way URLs are structured at the moment.

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for more information.

[gogoplata]

Until the bbPress integration is fully done with BuddyPress I just integrated bbPress with WPMU. I’d speculate that the global forum should actually be the easiest to implement since bbPress can already integrate with MU’s user tables.

[Andrea Rennick]

Whoa, I must have missed the forum announcement, awesome.

[Trent Adams]

This forum is a great idea now that things are moving forward so fast. Good deal.

Trent

[orangeguru]

My suggestions:

First look – nice and clean.

But I would say it’s too spacious and “nice” for daily use.

Last year I did a similar page for a client – who wanted several columns for widgets (Blogs, Login, Chat, Community, Forum, etc).

http://orangeguru.biz/clients/bizzlounge/index.html

If the layout / type is too big you hardly see anything what’s going on on a normal sized monitor (1280×800 or x1024) without scrolling. On the other hand you’ll never fit everything on a small or big screen anyway. So the layout has to be compact on one side – but also prioritize the widgets / elements.

I suggest deflating your design a bit, resizing some sections. It doesn’t need to be as tight (in my opionion too tight) as my design mentioned above – but it would help.

D.

[Andy Peatling]

Thanks for the questions. Some things I’d like to see on the home page:

– Latest posts, comments, tags and new blogs.

– Recently active, new, and biggest groups

– Recently active and new members

– Member, group and blog directories

– Site wide activity stream

– Recent group forum posts

– Latest photo updates, most viewed photos

Just some initial ideas. Most of this should be possible already with what is already there. I’m going to tackle the home theme next week.

As for your second question. I’d like to see the signup process modified to allow the first blog to be registered straight away. This may be down the line a little bit though.

Blogs will stay on their own subdomain/subdirectory simply because this is the way WordPress MU works – and changing that would break existing installations.

Site RSS feeds will be available at some point.

Andy

[Chris Taylor]

Well done on the new site Andy, it’s great.