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I would hope that that ‘Feature Requests’ were at a minimum at least until essential fundamentals are addressed so the site simply performs.

“Displaying code correctly in the forums” is similar to the moderate issue – “Missing various bbcode formatting filters in forum posts”.

Might need to clean up the writeboard as I haven’t really looked at it since May.

[EDIT]
Okay, I’ve sorted out the writeboard by adding new headings and moving a few items around. Take a look, comment and give some feedback!

A distinction then, or clarification Feature Requests are things that are nice but NOT fundamental to the usability of the board, fundamentals are those things that we all know are prerequisites for a usable tech forum (or any forum/board really) Don’t think I’ve ever experienced a tech forum where I couldn’t post code, it’s an essential. Being able to see all your posts or recent posts since last visit, allows you to easily keep current at the moment I lose track of posts. being able to search posts, being able to actually paginate to the next page of results when it says there are some.

I would have added Private Messaging PM system to that whiteboard list but remember it being mentioned by Andy? as to why it isn’t available at present. I think. It is a function that I think many of us would expect to be available.

I believe that the PM spamming was the reason for shutting it off.

More link in Community need fixing. Sometimes clicking more show double/repeat posts.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/858/bpmore.png

“I believe that the PM spamming was the reason for shutting it off.”
Improve anti-spam measures in BuddyPress.org – I’d like that PM back

Is @foxly still working on the SPAM issue? It seemed he was working on some BP.org anti spam measures…

@hnla @finni3 @techguy @r-a-y @boonebgorges @lph2005 @mercime

Point take, @hnla. It’s been a log day of coding. I average 85 hour work weeks.

I’m willing to help with the span control promlem. But it’s going to take some core commits.

Thanks!

^F^’

EDIT: I was tire, I was annoyed about spam because it’s causing big problems at two sites I run, and I said some things that were … unmindful.

Phrased more constructively, here’s how I think we could proceed:

a) We need emotionless (no die spammers die!), quantifiable, feedback from the people who run sites that have serious spam problems.

b) We need 4 or 5 people to do a code sprint for a week or two and get the thing finished,

c) We need some clever, mystery-solving types that enjoy challenging puzzles to help us debug it.

d) And finally, it has to be integrated into the CORE. So there is a STANDARDIZED framework for dealing with spam, and so people can see how *brilliantly well* it works at the BP site and so hundreds of plugins aren’t trying to implement their own solutions.

e) And I put up my hand to help make this happen. But I don’t want just me. I’ll do the research and grunt work, but I want a couple of core developers I can call on to sanity-check what I’m doing and about problems.

So there you have it…

^F^

if possible,
– Bring back the recent forum posts/topics rss feed like earlier .
It was much convenient than currently subscribing to the site wide activity feed.

“blooming of features” – Professor @boonebgorges what is the scope or parameters for the “blooming” ?

edit – @hnla “My comment is now orphaned and makes no sense,” I did wonder about what you were talking about

@boonebgorges BBPress has a build in feature that will lock threads after a certain period. I’m not sure how it’s exactly integrated with BP, but you might just turn on the BBPress option.

@crashutah That won’t work in/for BuddyPress; we pretty much only use bbPress to create their db tables, and to create/retrieve/update/delete individual forum posts.

@dennis_h We always do. Historically this site has been a bit behind the current release version because apparently the Automattic server architecture is very weird and limits some things that BuddyPress needs it do. The current way forward is that for any new plugins which adds features which we want on this site, we test on http://testbp.org/ (also on Automattic’s servers), so if something goes wrong, it’s only the test site that goes down.