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Although I certainly respect your opinion on the matter, I’m just not exactly sure what the size of a community (after all, every community always starts out with just one individual) has to do with anything at all here concerning basic privacy options, @ubernaut, but, @bphelp, you can certainly implement activity stream privacy for “friends only” and such, there just isn’t any elegant or up-to-date plugin that is current with BuddyPress 1.6/1.7 which works right out of the box, not that I know of anyhow, so you’ll either just have to code it and customize it in yourself or hire someone to do it for you.

The biggest problem with these types of out-of-core solutions (plugins, custom code, etc.) is that they, generally, have to continually evolve with the core updates for each release, and once you’ve built a community based on certain privacy options, ones that your members have come to expect and rely on, and they then all of a sudden break on you with a new update of core it then puts your entire community at risk, not to mention the immediate loss of respect and alienation of your site’s members, and that’s quite obviously not a good thing to have happen.

Don’t worry too much about being “negative” or “attacking” anyone here with such a valid question either. I’ve been working with and using BuddyPress since it first came out under Andy Peatling about 4-years ago, and full core privacy options should have definitely been one of the very first items to go in, and right from the start too. No doubt about it. Why haven’t they been implemented yet, especially after all of these years? I haven’t a clue.

I am betting though that core privacy options for activity, perhaps even full core privacy, will eventually make it into the core code and end everyone’s misery surrounding this entirely worn-out subject, but, again, when that is we just don’t know, but I’m guessing that with the new theme compatibility in BuddyPress 1.7 it is sure to light a bigger fire under it due to more mass adoption, as well as with the unending beat of the privacy advocate drum here.

probably gonna check that one out myself noticed the wpmu post about it yesterday.

@valuser

Thanks for the note re BuddyBlock

It is our most popular plugin and user response has been great !

@megainfo was this not perhaps something you could have contributed / returned a patch to core to bolster the work Boone put in for the profile aspect.

It be lovely to see a larger section of the BP coding community helping on trac tickets and the core developers.

Regardless though it’s a useful addition to BP, well done.

@megainfo: I hope the forthcoming admin controls will allow setting privacy levels for different roles. For example, I’d really like to be able to force subscribers to only be able to post to their friends, where as I’d like my contributors/authors to be able to post public updates. This would essentially make the activity stream work like Facebook for subscribers, but still give higher level users the ability to do public posts.