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@disha76

1. We don’t have Liking in blog posts, only on activity streams posts.

2. You can see your own Likes in a tab, but not another user’s Likes. You see if they Liked a specific post, but the tab to see all of their Likes is only available to them for privacy reasons.

3. Works fine with Multisite. When we release our next theme we’ll be moving all theme demos to a single multisite install, already doing our beta testing there and it works fine. Works with BP Activity Privacy too (this is a popular companion plugin for many people using BB Wall plugin).

4. True, cannot tag directly on photo
Cannot do multiple photo upload simultaneously (this is a big feature request, will be built)
Media files not integrated in WP media etc (sort of, they are actually stored in WP Media, but user does not have access to all of that on front-end)

5. Blog posting is done in admin like other themes. We do not yet have front-end blog posting. That will come in a future plugin we have planned.

6. Wall does not have every FB feature, but has a lot. The main purpose of it is to let you post on each other’s activity streams. Out of the box BP doesn’t let you do that. Our next theme has profile cover photos actually (coming soon). And we have a cover photo plugin coming soon as well.

8. Spam signups. We may make a spam solution at some point in time. This is a tricky one. Every solution you make only works for a bit, then the spammers figure out your tactic and update to counter it. It’s a cat and mouse game. We have some ideas, no timeline on this though.

I actually would have missed since this thread has become old! But thanks for responding at last.

1) Can I “Like” from a blog post and it will show in the activity stream? And vice versa?
2) Can an user see a collection of another users’ Likes? In the demo I saw this missing
3) How does the theme behaves in WP Multisite set up and/or with a standard 3rd party plugin eg buddypress-activity-privacy.1.3.3?
4) Media solution by buddyboss is separately priced but seems incomplete:
– Cannot mark directly on photo, see photo tagging in FB or other php scripts
– Cannot do multiple ( but max number settable by site admin) photo upload simultaneously
– Media files not integrated in WP media etc
5) How does the interface look like when one submits a blog – is he thrown out of the theme?
6) Less important – Wall comes as a separate premium plugin but does not let you post blog/event/location – nothing except photo. It has also only river display – some premium themes similarly priced offers both river and card display. No profile cover photo also ?

True, we used to have an open forum, but we had too many spam signups and closed it to customers only.

I will request you to make a custom solution for yourself to prevent spam signups. This will be more creditable stuff encouraging us to go for custom solutions to Buddyboss. Thanks again.

Hey guys, this is Michael from BuddyBoss.

@style960 Thanks for the kind words 🙂

@ronia

Can you please share a link?

The next theme will be available later this month, so check back at buddyboss.com every so often and you’ll see it advertised there. It is an entirely new concept.

If you really want to play with it now, send an email to support at buddyboss dot com asking to be a beta tester, and I’ll let you in.

@disha76

do you know how to contact the Buddyboss people for pre-sales queries?

Here I am, ask away 🙂

They seem to have no open forum

True, we used to have an open forum, but we had too many spam signups and closed it to customers only.

I submitted some queries via their contact form – and got no reply from them – its 4 days.

Sorry to hear. We are usually faster, but may have been slower due to the holiday season. What email did you send from? (you can PM me this if you prefer)

I visited the Buddyboss demo but it does not show how standard Blog post…

Here is a sample blog post:
http://www.buddyboss.com/demo/buddyboss/an-argument-for-simplicity/

Front-end posting…

We are going to build a plugin for front-end blog posting. In general we prefer to put big features in plugins rather than themes, so they can work with any theme. Then we style that functionality in our themes so it looks really nice.

Do the Buddyboss people frequent this forum ? If they do and answered such queries it would be a good sign indeed.

I check out buddypress.org forums pretty frequently and answer questions 🙂

@djsteveb

I found that most buddypress responsive themes are based on bootstrap – and since rtmedia loads a lot of bootstrap, and font awesome stuff, things would break when I put them together..

Agreed, bootstrap bloats stuff and causes problems. BuddyBoss themes (current and future) are just CSS and media queries. We’re not using bootstrap.

@style960 not yet. I have checked spam folder also. They have closed comment in the FAQ section and they have no pre-sales forum where one can register and ask question.

@sbraiden – I recently helped migrate a site off of wpengine because of performance issues and the price wpengine wanted for more horse power under the hood. Their next level of service was going to cost $3200 a month. I suggested linode.com and was also amused by the fact that wpengine runs on top of linode.

The page generation times for wordpress/buddypress/bbpress along with various plugins (gravity forms, buddypress xprofile custom fields type, gravity forms upload rules, gravity forms wysiwyg, gd bbpress toolbox, cloudflare…) was not good. It is still not where we want it either, unfortunately.

The site is quite active, pushing 30,000 members and over 1.3+ million rows in the posts table. On average the page generation times are about 1.5 seconds for logged in users. Adding a new bbpress topic/reply can time out sometimes though. (still on the list to track down and fix)

We utilize Cloudflare out front for a CDN and their threat/spam protection. Their service is free but if you need more page rules to balance out caching the pro service level is $20 a month.

On linode we have a node balancer in front of two 4 core app server nodes. The app server nodes each connect directly to their own 8 core database nodes in a master master setup. This will be changing down the road once the database indexes are trimmed down with some denormalization. The cost for the node balancer, two 4 core and two 8 core nodes is $260 a month but that’s also allowing for some room to grow, capacity wise.

Server software is a combination of nginx, apache (threaded), php-fpm, glusterfs (upload directory only), memcache, zend opcode cache and mariadb. Nginx is the web server in front of apache which serves up static files from the glusterfs file system. Nginx is caching the static content being served up by apache along with full page caching (fastcgi) for anonymous visitors. Cloud flare is also caching the static content and to date we aren’t having any performance issues with IO and glusterfs.

I hope this helps. It can be done but it takes some effort (and money) to do so.

Hi @atomonfire have a look at this thread which is quite related to your issue https://buddypress.org/support/topic/spambot-users/#post-230739
apart from that try plugins such as wanguard,bp security question.
I hope this helps
Thanks

hi @lucdkny, @colorfullady,

by default, the activity update is only intended for short and brief message to other users. Reason why the form is coming without any editor tools and doesn’t let you use any html tag.

If A+ or BP let you add images and videos, it’s because WP use automated oembed for such medias in any front-end editor, even the most simpliest like BP’s update.

If you want to mention docs, pdf, zip, or anything else, you might use some dedicated plugins. For example bp groups docs or Buddydrive. Each action made with help of these plugins will be mentionned on the activity feed. But to access the doc itself, users have to go to the mentionned group or profil.

I wouldn’t recommend you to get around these rules. File manipulation on front-end is delicate and a too easy opportunity for spammers or hackers. Don’t play with fire. 😉

Best thing I did to limit spam bot users is adding the free wordpress plugin “good question” – but change the defaults questions and answers.

I also reccomend si captcha plugin, and limit login attempts.

I always change the default settings on limit login attempts to be more strict than default.

I also add whitelist ip plugin for limit login attempts so I don’t lock myself out – lol.

It’s not buddypress but WP who manage registering and concerning bots, they go directly on your server.

A good starting point is to read the WP Codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

And at least,
Never use “admin” as username
Never user wp_ as table prefix

If you search for “spam” on this forum, you will find many topics about this subject.
And the latest one, even if not directly related to your issue, is one of the sticky post on the forum homepage. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/

Are there any best practices for I can adapt for a new site I am starting to prevent bogus members just signing up to spam things.

@danbp wrote…
2 is very appropriate: one for a site url, one for a screen shot… or max. 2 spam link 🙂

This is WordPress’ default setting /wp-admin/options-discussion.php and I tend to agree, 2 seems quite reasonable.

@danbp wrote…
But for mods (only), it could be more depending the user problem, even if 2 seems to be ok in most case.

I’ve just added a patch to bypass this altogether for moderators as it is pointless moderating moderators topics/replies that the moderator can self approve!

@danbp wrote…
But the warning msg, what ever the allowed links will be, is important.

A bit of background, there was a bug in bbPress that meant ‘maximum number of links’ was never actually being checked, thus we fixed said bug and now we see the results of said fix :/

Included in those same checks is Comment Moderation and Comment Blacklist also at /wp-admin/options-discussion.php for when a topic or reply contains any of the listed words (e.g. name, URL, e-mail, or IP) then the topic or reply will be saved with the post status pending and held in the moderation queue.

Currently if a match occurs from the “blacklist” a notice is displayed and the post is never created
ERROR: Your topic/reply cannot be created at this time., this behaviour will not change and only keymasters/admins can bypass this.

For the actual “warning message”/”notice” that is posted when either the max number of links or a word trigger from the “comment moderation” word list is triggered per @JohnJamesJacoby’s comment here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1988#comment:3

Having it be nondescript, and leaving it up to the moderation/admin team to review those posts and choose whether or not to publish them, seems the simplest approach for today.

Try first by modifying the read more params in WordPress settings.

Publishing “post” with help of the “what’s new” form is not really intended to publish long texts. And the read more link will cut it off by default after 150 char or so…

Aside, spam settings are also to be rewieved in your WP settings. By default, any comment text containing more than 2 links are considered as spam.

And depending the theme you use, you have also to check theme’s settings about such params…

In case of, you could try this plugin (but not sure it already works).

If you’re well with PHP, you can also try to play with this.

@johnjamesjacoby,

2 is very appropriate: one for a site url, one for a screen shot… or max. 2 spam link 🙂
But for mods (only), it could be more depending the user problem, even if 2 seems to be ok in most case.

But the warning msg, what ever the allowed links will be, is important.

I published my answer and…nothing. So i first thinked i did something wrong, before i realized that it could be a new forum setting. Thought other user can think the same.

darned spammers

@jjj I’ve noticed 1 or 2 forum spam messages today actually. Topic subject lines were along the lines of aaaaaaaaa and the thread content was a similar kinda crap. Not sure if that was related? Anyhow, I spammed the messages when I came across them

Sorry to here this @johnjamesjacoby it is a real shame that these measures need to be taken…but I also would not want to be the one with the task of deleting hundreds of automated spam pages either so I support this choice 100 percent. Thanks for the heads up!