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BuddyPress activity stream performance on larger communities

@johnackerman

Participant

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Hi everyone,

I’m running a BuddyPress-powered site and noticing the activity stream getting slow as user activity grows, even with caching enabled. It starts to feel heavy once groups, friendships, and posts increase.

How are others keeping BuddyPress fast and scalable while using the core social features?

Appreciate any insights.

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@espellcaste

Moderator

1 week, 2 days ago

I’d love to get more details here. If you have benchmark or more data about the size of the database and queries performed. If you use Query Monitor, you can see a lot about it.

@johnackerman

Participant

1 week ago

Thanks for the suggestion — I’ll run Query Monitor and gather some benchmarks so I can see which queries are slowing the activity stream as things scale. The database has grown quite a bit recently with groups and interactions, so that’s probably a big factor. I’m testing this while building out a community section alongside my own project (smokeycloudz.com), so performance tuning has been a learning process. I’ll share more details once I have some numbers

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