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My activity feed seemed broken, not recording new posts, and comments.

And yet it still worked for new wire posts, and status updates.

I traced this down in bp-blogs.php

function bp_blogs_record_activity( $args = '' ) {

...

if ( (int)get_blog_option( $blog_id, 'blog_public' ) ) { ... }

...

}

I had forgotten that I recently went to the privacy settings, and changed it to:

(x) I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

I can understand how “privacy” could correlate to sharing information on the activity feed… but when checking this off, I still very much wanted the activity feed to keep churning for posts and comments… I simply wanted to keeps search engines from indexing my content, as the option states – the site’s content is not for public consumption.

It’s especially odd since this feature doesn’t block activity recording of status updates and wire posts… they still get recorded, and they’re no less private than new posts and comments. probably more so.

I don’t want to remove this if-check from the core, but I would still like to keep the content private from search engines while retaining activity records for posts and comments. it seems to me that in the future, the check to record the feed action should be based on a separate blog_option specific to the functionality of the feed…

but for now, any suggestions?