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Since this thread contains a good amount of discussion, I will humbly beg to share some point of views

“”At one time, WordPress Joomla Drupal and other such software defined the standards for blogging or cms – they were open in all aspects and no product of a private, closed, biggie company equaled their efficacy and reach. They lead and biggies followed. But in the last 5 or 7 (or ?10) years no such software has come up. Unfortunate but true. Its now a world where facebook and the like are ……. Will there be another WordPress or Drupal or Joomla? Time will tell. But probably no. Sad but true. NO!””

“Stallman was one of the first to grasp that, if commercial entities were going to own the methods and technologies that controlled computers, then computer users would inevitably become beholden to those entities. This has come to pass, and in spades. Most computer users have become dependent on proprietary code provided by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, the use of which comes with conditions we may not condone or even know about, and can’t control; we have forfeited the freedom to adapt such code according to our needs, preferences, and personal ethics.” http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty

Wishing you all the best @planetearthlings

Not sure exactly what you meant to convey by your reply but your wrong in thinking a single BP/WP site has tens of millions of users are using this platform simultaneously even on wordpress.org I am not talking how many members there are I a am talking about how many people can actively be on a site at the same time before it bottlenecks.

Thanks @bphelp. What I meant was that wordpress com and wordpress org already has plenty of users. If Buddypress was added to this (just as Google added the Google Plus) this user base could go up much, much more. When it would have happened, you could have really known how millions of concurrent users are getting handled by wordpress and/or buddypress. If anyone wants to test for oneself or wants to know how wordpress com (which powers 20% of the net) handles simultaneous users here’s a starting point https://flood.io/blog/10-scaling-wordpress-from-zero-to-hero as well as there are many resources on the net.

FB is not a monopoly. There is other competition out there other than FB so I don’t know where your info comes from. Not to be rude but do you even know what a monopoly is?

May God bless you. I wish this was true. I am not a facebook fan. I will be happy if it just dies like Myspace and Orkut. And I know what monopoly is. If it was the 90’s facebook would have faced anti-trust and other lawsuits like Microsoft did in 90’s. Times have changed. Internet was once a large interconnected network of multiple sites nicely and openly connected by www, email and search engine. Though there were large companies even at that time, there was no one like facebook with so huge amount of data-mining and closed-wall/closed-garden approach. Why do we have to see so many sites just acting as “slave” to facebook with facebook like-buttons, facebook comment-box etc – and they do not even ask me for an option before throwing those buttons and boxes on my unwilling eyes. Youtube has no like-buttons or comment-boxes on other sites, neither has twitter comment boxes on other sites. Many kids these days have no email address but just a facebook account. When WhatsApp was coming up as a real competitor, facebook just gobbled it up by purchase. Sad that WhatsApp could not retain its own independence. If there were just at least 4 or 5 *equally* competing social networks like facebook where peoples’ participation was distributed and ‘load-balanced’ I would not have complained about the “monopoly”. I understand that you are having difficulty in what I am trying to say – I accept that as my failure. But what I am saying is nothing new – even the same concerns have been expressed by several persons openly on the net including Tim Berners Lee, the person who “invented” the http-www protocol and for whom we are enjoying internet as it is now.

I don’t know Matt Mullenweg so I have no affiliation in that direction and I kiss no ones ass to get affiliation because I prefer being humble.

I respect your opinion. What I meant was that if Matt could be inspired or motivated, Buddypress could have reached the next-level. I have posted to Matt several times about Buddypress. And if many did, may be there could have been, may be, a change in the attitude towards Buddypress. Matt is the creator of WordPress and I believe he is the central and key person who can …..
Anyways, there is no conflict in ‘being preferring to humble’ and writing something to him. But obviously you do not think like me. You do not have to. And no problem. I am sure someday someone will pick up the cue and clue and we really will have the inter<—>net that was and the internet of dreams. Thanks to you for your feedback.

Ah right! That seems to be quite an old resource, goes back to BuddyPress 1.5, I think.

Yeah, bp_activity_get_comment_count() will return the comment count for a particular activity item.

Sounds like you’re looking for a ‘notification’ count for activity comments? So for example, if I comment on an activity you’ve posted, the count will be 1. If two people comment on an activity you’ve posted, the count will be 2. At some point in time, you log in and view these which results in the count being reset to 0. Is that what you’re looking for? If so, as far as I know, there’s nothing like that available currently. You could always open a request on Trac asking for the functionality to be added?

Ref: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

For sure it is possible.

My Telegraph

How to do that ? i’m expecting it is the exact same theme for main and user blogs.

I have deactivated 80% of my plugins. Only the critical plugins remain.

Seems logical that your issue is in the remaining 20%.

When you debug an install, you should start from the begin and 1 by 1
And to do this correctly it’s better to work on a local install.

Also: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/ Give details about used version, theme and plugins please.
and https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

I want the member sites (subsites, http:example.com/blogs) , to use the same theme (header,footer,etc) as the main site, and not open as a separate site.

You can manage that kind of thing from the Network Admin Themes Screen.

@salexys There is only one instance of BuddyPress for a WordPress Multisite installation even if is network-activated. You’d want to check out “F. BuddyPress Multinetwork” in this page https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/

@rosyteddy
Not sure exactly what you meant to convey by your reply but your wrong in thinking a single BP/WP site has tens of millions of users are using this platform simultaneously even on wordpress.org I am not talking how many members there are I a am talking about how many people can actively be on a site at the same time before it bottlenecks. I don’t know Matt Mullenweg so I have no affiliation in that direction and I kiss no ones ass to get affiliation because I prefer being humble. FB is not a monopoly. There is other competition out there other than FB so I don’t know where your info comes from. Not to be rude but do you even know what a monopoly is?

LOL yes i meant xeon’s haha, that’s me all over spelling something as it sounds 🙂

Yes its expensive but its not intended for buddypress alone although i will test it out with it, its more of a venture into providing affordable hosting to clients etc. I can only afford to pay for it out of my other business revenue.

I just figured seeing as im interested in buddypress and use wordpress i would configure the servers like this seeing as i was purchasing them anyhows.

Too much to go into really as to why i purchased them, there would be no point me making the investment for a buddypress powered site on their own, when i have not yet built a buddypress site i have got traffic for.

@bphelp no worries mate, and i don’t think its to much off topic as this would need to be brought into consideration eventually if the reality of his website came true.

In your scenario that would be awesome if that was the case but I am not sure BP or WP could scale to the point that if “everyone” was on the site at one time like the BIG social networks it would handle that kind of traffic without major issues

Thats the beauty of the question 🙂 , I really dont think anyone has pushed buddypress coupled with wordpress to its limits as no-one has created that perfect niche yet that makes people want to use it by the masses, This no doubt has yet to be seen, tbh it is very complex to create a truly scalable environment for any platform and no matter if it was your own propriety customized solution or whether it be from using wordpress this is an issue anyone who built an highly successful site would face, i dont think its a question of ‘if’ someone will i think its more a question of ‘when’ 🙂

@mcpeanut
I was simply referring to the “change the world” statement. I love BuddyPress/WordPress and have developed plugins for it and I never said it was an unusable platform. You are right about BP and niche markets that is one of the awesome uses for BP but niche doesn’t take on the bold task of changing the world. I simply believe you should set realistic goals. In your scenario that would be awesome if that was the case but I am not sure BP or WP could scale to the point that if “everyone” was on the site at one time like the BIG social networks it would handle that kind of traffic without major issues. Apologies to the OP if this is slightly off topic.

Sorry @bphelp please dont take my questioning of your response negatively im genuinely interested in your opinion.

The reason i asked you the question above is because i think most people who have an idea for something they think is groundbreaking generally don’t do enough thinking about how they will implement that idea correctly if it did become successful, example: someone wants to create a social network with a good idea behind it, doesn’t have the funds or know how to have the propriety software you mentioned developed that other social networks have, then they do some research and stumble upon buddypress and think hey i can use it to build my amazing idea from, they then build their idea and think yippee its built im ready to unveil it to the world, and they get some hosting and put it live, it gets busy infact really busy then it grounds to a halt and fails.

Why did this happen? The thought process behind how things will need scaling and handling of growth wasn’t in place.

What if that person had done enough research about scaling and server configurations and are prepared to throw many much needed resources into the equation as and when needed?

The reason i ask you this is because i have now spent nearly 12 months researching about server administration/configurations regarding growth in a wordpress environment so i am curious on other takes on this.

@bphelp i agree with you on alot of things you just said, i also have a different view on a few things.

when it comes to software you need to have something proprietary like the BIG social networks

Ok we all know that buddypress is not designed to beat sites like fb etc, but it is by no means an unusable platform to build upon and expand into a large social network if done the right way.
Alot of this will ultimately depend on resources we can throw into a buddypress powered site if it began to grow at a rapid rate, it is quite possible one day someone will tap into a niche market using buddypress that goes viral amongst this niche, making the website very successful. I am going to ask you this, what would happen in this scenario, say if someone here did build a site that went viral through no fault of their own as everyone just flocked to use the site that was powered by buddypress, are you saying you would have to give up and close it because buddypress and wordpress wouldn’t cope?

Not avaible yet. Will be in WP 4.2 new “press-it”.

Keep in mind that SWA is not an external activity wall or feed, but a site (your site) members activity wall. Searching to publish anything on it is a bit vain.

Some medias can simply be embeded to SWA by copy/pasting, such as tweets, youtube videos or photobucket pictures.
Allowed medias are described here.

Try the latest 2.2-branch and see if that fixes your problem:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9647/branches/2.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip

Specifically, the fix in ticket 6280 should resolve things:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9608

Many solution for this, which is a WordPress question. For ex.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/