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Thanks. That clears things up. The only other problem I’ve encountered is after I deactivate the BuddyPress plugin and re-activate it, I’ll get the follow db errors:

WordPress database error: [Duplicate key name ‘useritem’]

ALTER TABLE wp_bp_notifications ADD KEY useritem (user_id, is_new)

WordPress database error: [Table ‘wp_bp_activity’ already exists]

RENAME TABLE wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached TO wp_bp_activity

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key 1]

INSERT INTO wp_bp_xprofile_groups VALUES ( 1, ‘Base’, ”, 0 );

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key 1]

INSERT INTO wp_bp_xprofile_fields ( id, group_id, parent_id, type, name, is_required, can_delete ) VALUES ( 1, 1, 0, ‘textbox’, ‘Name’, 1, 0 );

I’d ultimately love to see things go in that direction, and have been sifting through code the past few days thinking of how to get more red in the trac than green.

However, if this was the case, and activity had a component scope and a serialized array of return values, then you could replace private messaging with a threaded activity stream that only the users involved in that thread can view. You could send activity to multiple groups at a time, or only 1, or all of your groups, or the entire site, or any other registered components serialized set of values that mean whatever they mean.

You can almost replace the notifications class all together too, because if you take a count of the number of activities a user has directed at them and store it in usermeta, when the user returns if that number is higher, there’s your total notifications. Filter those new activities and now you can see how many of each. Actually, the code already exists within both WP and BP to do this.

In that regard, the activity stream does start to replace core communication components like forums, private messages, status updates, notifications, and the wire. At that same time, BuddyPress becomes less about separate components with their own API’s and classes and subsets of functions, but more about creating new methods for users to interact with each other in specific scopes of communication.

You could take things like twitter lists and make them work both ways, where you could send a message/comment/update/picture to only specific users instead of only viewing tweets from users. You could create an endless array of ways and names for collaborative tools to develop the platform from within the platform. It’s basically the blog post_types concept attached to people’s activity instead of re-categorizing blog posts.

The way to further develop groups would need a whole new topic, but I’ve got some ideas for that too.

@mrmaz, what you propose is the fundamentals of how I’ve approached my development before finding WP; start with small basic classes and work my up in functionality. There very easily could be a basic “bp_component” class where every new component just extends off of that, and sets the needed vars and assigns the needed functions accordingly.

Hi DJ Paul.

as far as I can see, nobody is complaining that the sky is falling, that would be a quite silly thing to do. Well I guess technically it is, but at least the earth is stopping it from doing so

Just pointing out an inaccuracy in thinking, I am sure that this is allowed without immediately posting PHP to fix it?

Back on topic; the question should also be: how could this spammer get access to all the usernames automatically? Of course everybody is listed, but somehow the were harvested and added to the pm list.

– Anyway, I think a very good start is that you can only message your friends. Thought that this would be already ths case, that is why I wondered how we could get spammed?

– Additionally: a maximum of PM’s per user per x amount of time (seems that 1/minute should be enough, + 50 per day. of course this should be optional and configurable with error notification (site options or plugin?)

– Maybe a maximum mailbox size, which included sent messages. So that at least spammers have to clean out their sent box before being able to send new messages.

– Also a maximum of adressees per PM, else the other 2 are useless

– maybe a minimum age of user (meaning time since registration), before he can send out PM at all?

Of course, any of these can be worked around, but at least it might slow spam down, at least from strangers..

Cheers, Harry

Welcome Pack did originally auto-accept Friend invites but someone made the suggestion that letting users respond to the notification also taught them how to use the site. I changed it a few versions back.

Devil’s advocate: if you friend everyone with everyone automatically, what’s the point? You haven’t got any not-friends to be not-friends with

Hello.

I do have spam user registrations even with registration option set to:

[*] Only logged in users can create new blogs.

I understand this option to say that new user registrations are DISABLED but registered users may create blogs. Unfortunatly the “Register”-Button appears in the welcome widget with that setting — even though clicking it will redirect back to the homepage.

To disable the above option also disables the blog creation — which I do NOT want.

For an unkown reason I do see spam registrations (a couple per week) but it seems those users are not able to login and create blogs (or comment). I also do NOT get the usual notification mails for new user registrations.

It seems like a bug to me.

Here is one way to do it I believe. Put this filter and function inside a plugin or your custom.php.

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_post', 'my_process', 2, 3 );



function my_process($activity_content, $post, $post_permalink){



$activity_content = sprintf( __( '%s wrote a new blog post: %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int)$post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

$activity_content .= "<blockquote>" . bp_create_excerpt( $post->post_content, 25 ) . "</blockquote>";



return $activity_content;

}

I think this is the most efficient way of doing this. Basically, this code snippet overrides the content of the activity notification for a new blog entry. It is unfortunate that you have to write all the other crap again, but as you can see the thing you want to change (bp_create_excerpt) doesn’t have its own filter.

The good news is, unlike some approaches to this problem, this solution doesn’t require that you alter the core.

Try it and see if it works. Sorry ’bout the layout overflow

Hi guys, I’m having the same problems. When I do not add the $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; line to the bb-config file it works, but just for the admin. After adding it, bbpress keeps coming up with the famous ‘There was an error posting that topic.’ notification. Since it’s dificult to debug a message like that I just can’t find out what can be wrong…I just updated the BBPress installation to 1.0.2, but I still have the same problem.

I hope somebody can help me out, thanks .

I think it’s a great feature and should be available to everyone… but perhaps should have more messaging around it and/or made an option that an admin can disable. Personally… in my case… this feature would be invaluable and it would need to be available to everyone. It all depends on the nature of the group. For a giant group… maybe you don’t want it. But let’s say you form a group that is a small collection of committee members using the wire to talk about ideas or what have you… in that case… the mass notify is great. Also… users who get annoyed with these kinds of notifications always have the option to turn them off!