Testing Secondary Avatars

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Submitted for 1.2.6, this website is now testing the secondary activity feed avatars. On this site this mainly means ‘Groups’ since we aren’t using multisite and have the ‘Friends’ component disabled.

Also, some of the deprecated style activity feed items are currently showing mixed styling and results. The format changed a little over a year ago, and there is still a bit of testing to be done to ensure 100% compatibility.

Please report any issues here if you see any!

28 thoughts on “Testing Secondary Avatars”

  3. Good call. Take this activity stream item as an example.

    The first avatar is naturally of the user that performed the activity. The second avatar for the group, gets inserted into the stream dynamically by BuddyPress, rather than saved into the database forever.

    Part of the problem with the first iteration of the activity component, was it literally saved the entire contents of that action into the DB in fulltext; so the user’s display name, their avatar, etc… When a user changed their avatar or their display name, the activity stream would be stuck with the old data forever. (If you look at items on this site from over a year ago, you’ll see what I mean.)

    So BuddyPress 1.2.6 will come packaged with a little snippet of code to inject the group/blog/user avatars of core components. So when “john and andy are now friends” it will show both of our avatars instead of just mine.

    Neat eh?

  8. One thing about the default theme that still greatly annoys me is the way it says “11:26 pm in News by John James Jacoby”, instead of the date. Honestly, who would rather see the time of day a post was made, rather than the date? ^^

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