[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.

[Andy Peatling]

I’ve talked with Sam a bit about this, and it seems the best way to do it would be to include one installation with every BuddyPress install.

With one installation, a single forum could be generated for each new group created. I’m not sure about a “global” forum yet, but I assume the same could be done for that too.

[kaitou123]

Thanks for the forum, Andy!