Alan in fairness Paul locked the thread for the reason that it was coming across as simply confrontational, as was suggested writing in a less confrontational manner – those bullet points were somewhat closed statements – might engender a better response form people. I note your concerns and I have shared them too an extent but to actually try and keep things on track we have to try and be positive. At the moment long winded threads that just go round and round endlessly are not what the community needs – it’s not censorship just concern to keep a positive spin on things, raise issues by all means but lets try and have possible solutions at hand as well.
One last point worth considering; BP is a relatively young project and still finding it’s feet, I remember well how long WP actually took to become what you might consider mature and stable, certainly theming with WP was not a huge amount of fun for many years. BP is in many ways ahead of WP in those terms.
Grow up.
I’ve been in contact with two sites featured here: https://buddypress.org/showcase/ and they agree with what I wrote and that is why I returned to post.
I have more members than any site BP has ever featured. I only mention that because I’m not some person upset that I can’t figure out how to get avatars working. I’m worried that BP won’t be around long term.
This is nothing more than a hobby site, or at the very least is run as such. Any criticism is construed as confrontational and hostel.
I’ve run forums with thousands of members for years and never had to lock a post. What was the threat? Seriously?
You do realize that the sites that successfully run BP are your biggest assets…. right… right?
<snip>I’m worried that BP won’t be around long term
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be? I think the issue is moving BP forward at a pace and in a direction that is felt correct and to start addressing issues raised about the core with each milestone reached and this is happening. As I said in my last paragraph above I don’t consider BP a fully mature App yet but it’s young, and like any project to some degree you don’t really know some of it’s short comings until people like yourself do start using it in earnest and providing / feeding back real world experience.
<snip>This is nothing short of a hobby site, or at the very least is run as such
I think the criticism unjustified, at least as applied to this actual dev site, to the project as a whole, possibly until that is people like yourself start using the app for sites that are more than hobby projects. As for buddypress.org the core team are presently attempting to correct and improve the site.
I think the point has been raised that long rambling threads that simply point out issues or that seem to simply moan are not constructive BUT from time to time they have there uses such as the now infamous “Is BP dying thread” that thread helped raise issues that were of concern and that are now being addressed.
