Test Drive BuddyPress

Or do you mean clearing the cookies in the database?

We tried that – cleared cache and cookies, even tried from a different browser without logging in to the site.

@andy We just upgraded to RC2. If I click a link to the Photography group from the site feed, it still shows just two entries from me, and one from me belonging to another group. However if I go to ’my groups’ and click to the Photography group from there, it shows all appropriate content relating to the group, but also shows entries from two other groups. (http://efx3.com/groups/photography/)

Exactly. They have viral marketing and a bigger-than-life ’brand name’, but what they’re doing is nothing new. Social networking exists in many iterations across the web and it’s only the person who can shout the loudest who’ll get the most users. Open source projects like buddypress offer much more attractive features, customer service and community care being two of the most appealing – but people will flock to the big name like sheep.

Oh, I don’t think it’s a huge leap to get from ’he’s full of it’ and hinting at the possibility of him being a hacker to full-blown name-calling. His choice of marketing was to pique interest and get people intrigued. Looks like he’s done fine with that. Don’t like it? Ignore it, move along. As for checking whether he’s a spammer or not – if you’ve visited his website and poked around on his profile then you’ll have seen his portfolio and AvenueK9; blatantly not spam sites. He’s just a guy with some skill at marketing and coding, trying to do something helpful. I can’t imagine it’s doing much to his motivation when he sees someone, instead of outright coming to the point with ’Look, I’m checking up on Andy’s behalf that you’re not actually a spammer – can you fill me in with what this is all about?’, decides to broach the subject with ”it’s link bait. We’re supposed to sign up because of some snazzy graphics and a promise of greatness? Pass”. A bit more harsh than was really necessary.

Because I messaged him and asked. I would have thought that was the sensible approach – if you want to know something, ask a direct question. I don’t imagine anyone would have signed up to something if they felt uncomfortable with not knowing what it was, but for those who did want to know, I would like to think that they had the sense to message Mike and ask him, if they were intrigued enough by his images to bother finding out. And as I’ve said previously, if people were getting fed up of seeing his images, they could simply block them and carry on, no harm done and certainly no need for throwing your toys out of the pram.

Thank you – it was deserving

In two places on Mike’s original thread that Brent and yourself commented on (http://testbp.org/activity/p/64961/), he says:

”I have the guinnea pig question on there, because I’d really like to produce themes that speak to the vast majority. The only way I can do that is by getting a focus group together, or ”guinnea pigs,” who’ll suggest improvements to whatever I come up with.”

”been thinking lately as to how i’ll roll out B2, since i don’t want this theme pack to own me, ha!”

Having also seen the first few images MIke posted and finding myself intrigued and wondering, I PM’d Mike and asked him what B2 was all about. He responded and kindly told me that he’s putting together, as said above, a theme pack. Now if you’d only thought to ask him yourself instead of getting irate at his method of marketing, you would doubtlessly have received the same answer, would therefore not have needed to flame him on his own product, and we’d all be none the wiser that you’re name is rather fitting

Well, you were eager enough to start having a go at Mike without even waiting for him to answer Brent. If you’d shown an iota more patience you’d have had your answer when Mike logged on and saw the question – but I guess since manners aren’t your thing, it’s a bit too much to ask for patience too. Talking of someone being ’full of it’ – they say the qualities we hate most in others are those that remind us of ourselves.

You really are a hater, aren’t you? He answered your question, told you and everybody else what it’s about, and still you’re dishing out insults and going so far as to insinuate he’s a hacker. I’m starting to think the only possible reason behind this absurd behaviour (aside from downright childishness) is jealousy. So Mike came up with a good idea that will benefit the buddypress community and he’s doing a good job of marketing it – what is there not to approve of? If you don’t want to see the images he’s posting, block them; problem solved. There’s no need to inflict your petulant vitriol on us.

We haven’t modified the adminbar at all We’re still running RC though, and I see it’s working as it should be here on testbp. so we’ll wait for release and upgrade and hopefully that’ll fix it.

Go to the ’groups’ tab and click ’create a group’

@andy Bit of an update – if I log out, it shows full group activity as it should. It’s only when I log in that it seems to filter the group activity to only show my own, and even then, not all of it.

Gotta love the cynicism here, Pratt (and the irony). I take it you haven’t actually asked Mike what BuddyPack is all about? I’m wondering if you’ve even followed the link and browsed his site; if you had, you’d see that he’s not entirely short of skill and anything he puts out will probably be worth signing up for.

Not running the latest trunk, will upgrade later and see if that makes a difference. Currently running RC1. After clearing cache and cookies, I open the site (efx3.com), click ’my groups’, click on any link to the ’Photography’ group (which was created on Friday after upgrading to 1.2RC), and the only activity it shows is me creating the group, and directly beneath, it shows the latest entry from the older group ’Books’, and nothing else. I see the same thing if I go to the main Groups tab and click Photography. If I go to Groups and click ’Books’, all I see is the date I joined the group. If I click on the group ’Movies’, I see my latest activity, my join date, and then beneath those, one random entry by me from the ’Tech Support’ group. I click on the ’Delicious’ group and it shows three of my activity stream entries and then the creation date of the group.

All of these groups have activity from other members as recently as within the past week. If I log out of my regular username and log in as admin, I don’t see any activity in the groups (”Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.”) aside from the creation date of any groups I created as admin. There are no filters selected.

We’ll update to the latest trunk later and I’ll let you know if it changes anything.