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(Make you smile?)
More or less.

If I were given a really nice house for free I would suffer it’s little flaws, I would attempt to learn how to construct window frames by studying books etc, however what I wouldn’t be doing is ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’ to quote a metaphor – not suggesting that this what you are doing here though, but the point being that nothing is perfect, and BP has it’s issues and is in ongoing development; it’s not a finished product but one stable enough, developed enough that it serves sites well enough to be used, it can, and works best, when extended, modified, adjusted to suit the particular sites purpose.

If it’s an inherent problem, then we should have a button in the settings area where we can turn off that problem.
There is! and you found it:

The only thing that I have found is in BuddyPress>Settings where it says:
Blog & Forum Comments Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts

I unchecked the box and the Reply option still shows on the Activity Streams page and on the Group Home pages.
That shouldn’t be the case and isn’t on my test installations so not sure what’s happening with yours, first thing to try is activating the default theme or twentytwelve to see if still the same to test whether this is a theme issue.

As for general site users feeling unsure or confused in how to use I ought to point out this isn’t unusual nor is it particular to buddypress installs, one overlooks the fact often that the vast majority of users on the internet really struggle to understand anything in real depth, with many apps causing them confusion. With buddpress or any app really there is the need for guidance and explanation, but this is the responsibility of the site owner to provide, guide pages on a site imho are essential, something that sets out the sites purpose, explains the various features and how users ought to use them.

Buddypress as stated earlier is in ongoing development, but as an Open Source project requires feedback from users, bugs reported, issues or enhancements raise on the ticket system ‘trac’

As for BP ever providing everything to all people out of the box this is never likely to happen, providing options is the biggest nightmare as it’s endless and eventually grinds things to a halt. Due to the nature of WP being open in terms of it’s plugin API a lot of what one may want is going to be left to plugin developers to provide.

So BP improves with each iteration but if you believe there are issues or enhancements to be made then please get involved feedback to the project (and not in the support forum where it will just get lost) add your thoughts, examples, possible solutions to the BP trac ticketing system, it’s open to anyone to use.

This sounds like the dreaded single line comment ‘you don’t have sufficient permissions to …” Sadly I cannot say in this case what may have occurred to trigger this, sometimes clearing the browser php session and/or cookies will resolve this. It’s a WP issue which needs greater clarification than I’ve found thus far in why this nonce check cuts in from time to time seemingly without provocation.

@rayela You create a file bp-custom.php and include the code there – make sure there’s no line or space above or beside opening <?

Then you upload that file from computer into your server wp-content/plugins/ folder via FTP or cpanel

@rayela open up your own text editor – NotePad on PC or TextMate on Mac.
– File > New
– Add the content per what I posted above
– File > Save As – bp-custom.php (note select All Files in dropdown)
– Upload bp-custom.php via FTP/cpanel to where I noted it above

What did seem to make a difference was downloading the Members Plugin and changing the roles for Administrator. A bunch of them were not checked, including the role of a Participant. I checked everything and was able to post again. I then updated to the latest version of bbPress.
Glad you figured out a workaround, however one shouldn’t need to use a thirdparty plugin to fix another, there’s an issue that needs addressing, I have this where I have groups enabled for forums but haven’t had a forum selected to use, trying to do so results in a perms issue and using the bbpress forum tools to remap users to default perms has any effect which it ought to or suggests ought to.

However, if I navigate to the dashboard and edit the group from the CPT where you have the same options as front end the process does work, so when issues might arise worth trying from that way around.

I made a slight change to the function for redirecting the user to the forum instead of the activity page because I forgot that you can create groups that have no forums which results in the group page never being able to be found. Now if you the group h as no page the activity page will still be the first tab selected when viewing a group:

//function to redirect group home pages to the forum tab instead of the activity tab
function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false && bp_is_active('forums') ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

Hi @wiste,

If you use this code, then it’s no longer possible to display the old home (activities) tab.

Also, if I visit a group on your website you no longer default to the forum tab:
http://www.makeloops.com/groups/amigurumi-designers/

Is it possible to still display the home tab, but to load another tab (eg. forum) as a default?