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I’m aware of the hakam00 thing. If akismet looked at BP private messages to see if they were spam, we’d also need to build in an area for people to go and ‘unspam’ the messages.

actually as private messages were not in WordPress, there is no akismet filter on its content, compared to posts and comments… maybe someone can add this to the posting actions ?!… it’s just 2 lines of code.

Is there not a way for users to mark spammers and draw them to the admins attention as such?

The user hakam00 in this website is a desperate spammer … how many desperate lonely geeks does “Tina” think “she” will scam on this site?

Presumably “Tina” comes from Romania or Nigeria?

See below:

Subject: Hello.

“Hello.

My Name is Tina I was impressed when i saw your profile buddypress.org and i will like you to email me back to my inbox so that i can send you my picture for you to know who i am.i believe we can establish a long lasting relationship with you.

In addition,i will like you to reply me through my

private e mail box for more introduction

Thanks,waiting to hear from you soonest.

Tina.

Please write to my inbox so that i can send you my picture.”

According to your project’s requirements, why do you absolutely need to develop a wiki ? I understand that you want easy writting facilities so why not using blogs ? Of course, there would be a lot to build in the group’s front end but at least you can use WP’s core functions.

1 – link a blog to a group, maybe using group meta (and make it private if needed) and give group users certain rights on blog.

2 – build a front-end tool for groups to be able to view, add pages and create content

3 – the post revisions could be useful to have full history of the page

Of course, work has to be done on user’s roles and capabilities to be able to view revisions and edit contents as non admin users.

This is just an idea, I don’t know if this could match your requirements.

I have the same issue. Private group, initial group image upload is fine. Can’t update image. Please see the linked screenshot:

http://bestagentblogs.com/bpgroupavatar.png

For the use case I have in mind, I am very interested in how blog posts appear in the activity stream.

At around 15:45 GMT, I made a test post on one of my testbp.org blogs:

http://donnacha.testbp.org/2009/12/01/blog-post-activity-stream-test/

… but it did not appear in the activity stream on the testbp.org homepage, not even with the stream filtered to “Blog Activity Only”.

I noticed that the most recent blog post appearing in the stream was written 3 days, 19 hours ago – could it be that there is a substantial delay before blog posts appear in the stream?

I also noticed that the blog post has not appeared in my own profile page’s stream either.

It might be the case that, when I set up the blog, there might have been some option I took that renders all of that blog’s posts private, which might be preventing them from appearing in the streams, but I can’t remember doing so and, now, I cannot find any option to make all posts public.

@Andy… interesting view on posting on other people’s profiles. Maybe I just suggested that because I’m so used to it on Facebook. But you may be right. I know I find it weird when I view someone’s wall and it’s full of stuff like “Hey… call me tonight… 456-7890”. Seems more appropriate for that stuff to be private direct messages.

But I think you could argue the point either way.

On another issue… one thing I find slightly confusing about the new model is “comment” and “reply”. I wonder if threading in the activity feed is a bit of overkill? I think it could just be flat… just “comment” only. Not reply. But I’d be interested to hear your thinking on this too. After all… I’m sure your goal is not to simple recreate Facebook.

I think users should somehow be able to write messages on other users profile. (Not just through the private messaging system).

I somehow like how Facebook works where you can write messages on users profile – via the activity stream or ‘a wire’ – I don’t really care!

The point is, I think it’s a nice feature if you want to write “specific messages for specific users” and you don’t want the messages to be 100% private (like through the messaging system).

Others should be able to see the personal message as well if they go visit that profile. (It does not necessary needs to be part of the Site Wide activity stream. Maybe if you could even choose if it should or not).

The Wire was like a guestbook and I kinda liked that. And I thought the activity stream commenting would somehow melt together with The Wire. Or maybe there’s a better solution for this.

I’m sure Andy will find the best solution for this.

Whatever you call it… I think we still need a way to create a new comment on someone’s “wall”, “wire”, “stream”… whatever. I LOVE the new model. It makes so much more sense to be able to comment directly on content in the stream. But there still needs to be a way to go to someone’s profile and say something new like “Hey… are we still on for tonight” or whatever. Otherwise the only way to address someone directly regarding something new is to use private messaging.

That’s the one, if you turn that to private then it will stop showing in the stream.

You could make the blog private?

I wish I could but unfortunately it will take some times for me and my guys to get other customized plugin to work with the new release as we all have been playing with the current version which we had going in to for quite some time.

Yeah, I know the latest version has the solution but I really hope for a technical solution (hacking the core files i guess?) which will solve the problem logically.

Anyway, the variable $topic which I debugged through in the bp-groups.php file was not holding any value which I might suspected to be the source of the problem:

function groups_new_group_forum_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) {

global $group_obj, $bp;



if ( $topic = bp_forums_new_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) ) {

bp_core_add_message( __( 'Topic posted successfully!', 'buddypress') );



/* Record in activity streams */

groups_record_activity( array( 'item_id' => $group_obj->id, 'component_name' => $bp->groups->slug, 'component_action' => 'new_forum_topic', 'is_private' => 0, 'secondary_item_id' => $topic['topic_id'] ) );



do_action( 'groups_new_forum_topic', $group_obj->id, $topic );



return $topic;

}

bp_core_add_message( __( 'There was an error posting that topic.', 'buddypress'), 'error' );

return false;

}

Anyone have ideas what the $topic variable does?

Just tried out Mingle and I’m very impressed with it, especially at the fact that it’s such a young plugin.

Mingle’s activity stream and commenting is the way BuddyPress should have done it.

I’ve never understood why status updates and the wire are considered separate.

Mingle also has basic out-of-the-box privacy features so you can choose if your profile is visible to your friends only or to the public.

The author of the plugin is Blair Williams, who has also made the excellent Pretty Link plugin.

No sitewide activity stream, pretty permalink support for user profiles, private messages support, or groups, but that’s understandable.

So far I like Mingle because it’s simple and I hope it stays that way.

It’s not enough to jump ship from BP, but it’s definitely a plugin to keep an eye on.

!!!!!

I was able to correct this problem with some mods to the welcome-pack.php file.

And I must preface this by saying that this fix is a hack. I am really not that familiar with the plugin and don’t know that my changes won’t result in some problem.

Basically, it appeared that none of the following functions were using the $meta value being passed in. So, I removed it. Here is the simple change. For each of these three, around lines 74, 102 and 132, respectively – change them from this:

function dp_welcomepack_welcomemessage( $user_id, $password, $meta )

function dp_welcomepack_defaultfriend( $user_id, $password, $meta )

function dp_welcomepack_defaultgroup( $user_id, $password, $meta )

to this:

function dp_welcomepack_welcomemessage( $user_id, $password )

function dp_welcomepack_defaultfriend( $user_id, $password )

function dp_welcomepack_defaultgroup( $user_id, $password )

NEW!!!: Change the following lines in “dp_welcomepack_onuserandblogregistration” from this:

—

dp_welcomepack_defaultfriend( $user_id, $password, $meta );

dp_welcomepack_defaultgroup( $user_id, $password, $meta );

dp_welcomepack_welcomemessage( $user_id, $password, $meta );

—

to this:

—

if(is_array($user_id)){

$user_id = implode($user_id);

}

dp_welcomepack_defaultfriend( $user_id, $password );

dp_welcomepack_defaultgroup( $user_id, $password );

dp_welcomepack_welcomemessage( $user_id, $password );

—

That will correct your undefined argument problems and should solve your array problem. Note!!! I am not entirely sure why the user_id value was being converted to an array in the first place, so, make these changes with that in mind. I don’t believe it will be a problem but it is possible that somehow you might get an actual array of more than one value and that would be an issue. One way to check this that I did not add would be to get an array count if it is an array and only set the value if it’s equal to 1.

If for some reason you are experiencing other problems, feel free to message me privately and I can investigate further.

I have thought about this as it pertains to the activity feed and the privacy component properly excludes a member’s activity stream for those activities they’ve indicated they wish to be made private.