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@peterverkooijen said; “Talk about dropping rigidity and opening up to an amazing new flexibility and power is pure nonsense”. Ah Peter, without visionaries such as yourself, how would we ever have got to where we are..?! Growing out of rigid definitions into new flexibility is where the virtual world is heading, like it or not. Everything you see online now will be long dead in five years, and all the concepts you hold dear buried deep. Might as well get used to it.

BuddyPress is a mess, as I see it. It isn’t really anything, and at the same time it’s too much. If I want a community conversation stream, along with simple WordPress themes, etc., there’s Mingle. If I want a forum on my site that’s easy too; there’s BBPress, Mingle Forum, etc. If I want member groups regardless of these, there’s, erm… there’s… well, BuddyPress does that, kind of, in a big and over-complicated way.

BuddyPress should be about making social contacts. The name’s a bit of a clue, right? In other words, friends and contacts with grouping of such, contact streams, and strong privacy for users so they determine who sees what they post. On top of that, as it’s a social tool; community moderation/banning, and reporting to site admins in a simple and obvious way. Oh, and of course, easy to see notifications such as friend/contact requests, etc. Who thought it was a good idea to *include* forums in all of this, and relate them to groups?! Each entity and its associated operations should be separate and self-sustaining. Basic OOP.

It just doesn’t do anything easily, does it? And the hype on the download pages about plugins to do whatever you like is just hype, really. Oh, it ‘kind of’ does everything you want, but only kind of. You have to jump through hoops, and even then you’re fighting with a forum which tries to be a group trying to hold conversation streams together.

I’m interested in productive discussion about social networking sites and their take-up and impact, though not here as I feel it’s not the right place. For one thing, the developers and those who kiss up don’t like to hear how their baby was malformed from the start. If anyone is interested in finding solutions to creating truly interactive social networks in the easiest and most stable way possible at present, please email any-name-you-like at our domain.

Hi Ray,

I have upgraded to version 0.57 but I still see the issue showing the name “admin” instead of the name of the user.
I do NOT have the “BP Follower Plugin installed”.

I see this issue when not being logged-in.
When being logged-in, then this issue is not there.

Using WP 3.0 (Multi-Site) and BP 1.2.4.1

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@tsui is a unique identifier for admin that you can type into any message on this site. admin will be sent a notification and a link to your message any time you use it.
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@johnjamesjacoby; Just a quick note, as I’m off out for a while. I noticed in the previous version of BP that the ‘?’ symbol on the profile age next to the avatar was reporting names wrongly. I hacked it in core, but now it’s back in the new version.

Eg., with a user ‘fred’, when logged in as fred the message is correct. But if I’m logged in as ‘admin’ I get this when looking at fred’s profile (notice ‘admin’ in second sentence);

@ fred is a unique identifier for admin that you can type into any message on this site. admin will be sent a notification and a link to your message any time you use it.

When I hacked it I removed the extra names, as they’re not required;

@ fred is a unique identifier for this person that you can type into any message. He/she will be sent a notification and a link to your message when you do this.

Btw, the correct username is @apeatling, not @andy (that poor guy is getting overloaded with a bunch of non-relevant notifications. )

Lots of previous threads for this. Even a recent one with a Trac ticket to make it so it doesn’t require lowercase:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/register-username-with-uppercase/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/allowing-users-to-type-in-uppercase-letters-for-the-username/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/username-starts-from-uppercase-letter/

I’m not sure if the lowercase does matter in other sections. You might add the question to the Trac ticket and see if the core developers can answer. This is something I’d like to fix too. The other solution I’ve considered is to have some javascript function that will check the username to make sure 1. it’s available and 2. that it’s lowercase and 3. Any other validation. At least a notification before they click submit would be sufficient.

Why not just leave it on the notification page? So far, you haven’t removed the functionality. You’ve just removed the navigation to see some of that functionality. So, if someone does the @username they’re going to get a notification unless you disable that also. Plus, not many people are going to look at the notifications page anyway;-)

To your question, I think you would have to remove the action and write another function that doesn’t display the mentions settings. You’d just need to test what happens when save is clicked and that setting isn’t passed. Maybe you pass it as a hidden variable or something.

Hey Simon,
Are you mentioning a user in a group forum?

Someone can correct me if I am wrong but you won’t receive a notification email or note in the user bar if that is the case. You will only receive an email if someone users your username @mention in a status update that then hits the activity stream.

Click on settings in your BP profile and look at notifications. It will list everything you get an email for. @mentions in forums isn’t one. I imagine if it was your inbox would be full of messages if you participate in a busy forum.

Simply click on the @mentions link in your BP profile when you first login to get upto speed with @mentions.

As I say, I’m sure a mod will correct me if I am wrong but you don’t get an email or notification in each instance when using @mentions.
Hope this helps mate,
Ross

If you put it in functions.php you’ll probably need to do something like this:
function auto_login_bp() {
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);
}

add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘auto_login_bp’ );

Although, even then it might not know the $user_id variable. So, you might have to add the code in my original post to the bp-auto-activate-user-and-blog plugin on line 170 or so. Although, that will cause the issues I mentioned above I think.

@mazen I just figured out the code to make it work on WP. I’ll add it to my plugin above soon. Here’s the code:
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);

I tried it a little with WPMU. It kind of works, but there’s some sequencing that needs to happen better. Cause it logs me in, but not before the login box appears in the sidebar. So, it looks like you’re not logged in, but you are. Which is weird, because it’s not happening to me on WP. Although, it’s likely cause on WP I’m hooking to bp_core_signup_user and in WPMU it hooks to wpmu_signup_user_notification.

Who’s for a unified signup process (WPMU and WP) now that they’re one?

Boone there is this plugin which is really for dev setups where passing emails through the dev network is awkward so allows you to register a user normally then go into backend and manually approve using the activation id

WPMU Manual Member Approve:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/

Would you believe though I just tried to run it on my local site and it’s broken! at least it’s throwing an undefined function error bp_page_title()

Haven’t time to look into that but it doesn’t look to much of an issue.

Of course this doesn’t get round the issue of letting those users know they have been activated and not really sure one wants to simply activate a bunch of accounts when the users are never going to know about it.

Of course once activated and once you have established you are sending emails correctly you might be able to work some means of adding everyone to a group and posting an update to that group that will send a notification out to email addresses?

An quick update. The new version should not be used on live sites because we are currently re-doing the data structure, so any groups that users join now, they will have to re-join later.

About the follow topic link on the topic page, I forgot to put in the read me the instructions for adding the proper action hook into the buddypress code. I’ve added the request to trac, so it should eventually be in BP core.

Here you can see what needs to be added: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2129/2129_forum_topic.diff
really it is just ` ` that needs to be added to bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum/topic.php before `

Hey mates, I’ve been trying to work this out as well.

Been trying Andy’s External Blogs RSS and Group Twitter Plugins

with WPmu 2.9.2

They work well within the Groups,

But they seem to have this feature of updating the Group Activity Feed every time a user visits the group.

So I get double / multiple posts.

+ with the Group Notifications Plugin, I get multiple emails

every time someone visits the group and refreshes the feed.

Any Ideas how I could at least shut off the refresh every time someone visits the group.

If this is manageable, they’re both great and very useful plugins.

Please let me know your thoughts and solutions.

– Jeff –

http://www.Vybee.com

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I didn’t try yet the” This is a notice to all users” yet, but I thought that that would send an email notifications to all the users (if they have email notifications on).

Selecting that checkbox, does it send only a site notification instead? I mean when users log in? No mail?

This is now officially a “Potential Future BuddyPress Feature” for BP 1.4+ (ie, after BP 1.3, which looks to be essentially the WP 3.0 compatibility release). Here is the short list:

A quick blog post form via the theme. (try plugin: BuddyPress QuickPress)

Privacy controls (try plugin: bp-authz)

Global content tagging

Inappropriate content flagging

Bulk accept/reject friendship requests

Grouping of similar activity stream items

Ability to block all communication from a user

Option to receive forum post notifications via email

Message file attachments

Structured profile fields (templates for address / phone number)

Profile field specific searching (try plugin: BP Member Filter)

AJAX live updating of site wide activity stream

Hey Erich,

That plugin you listed is considered “deprecated” by Boone.

He’s now working with David on the Group Activity Stream subscription plugin.

I am also very interested i this functionality. The ideal for me would be a sidebar widget with something like “suggested friends” or “people with similar interests” that lists a few links to people who’s profile info is similar. A weekly email notification of these people’s profiles would also be fantastic.

This has same great implications because it encourages users to interact with people they don’t know and they are (might be?) more likely to do so because of their self-described similarities.