I’m testing MediaPress on my site as a possible alternative to Buddyboss Media and while I love the functions for galleries and shortcode to display them, I’m confusing by the logic of the BuddyPress integration when it comes to comments and the Activity Feed. I tested the demo on your site, and it works the same way so my comments below are in regard to your demo, and I’ve seen older threads with requests to change it, but it appears to still work in this fashion.

Each comment in the lightbox gets reposted to the Activity Feed with the image, over and over again… this seems bizarre, as you end up with multiple posts and it fills up the activity feed with the same image and a single person’s image. I assume the goal was to emulate Facebook and how it boosts posts with comments, but Facebook only moves the SAME post, it doesn’t create multiple iterations in order to bump new content. This is very confusing to people. On my site, once someone posts, there are usually 7 or 8 comments immediately, so the Activity feed would be filled with 7 or 8 of the SAME image in this current logic.

Is there a way to have ALL the comments stay only with the original image post in the Activity Feed, and the comment counter in the Activity Feed accurately reflect the number of all comments for a single image posted, like Facebook?

As it stands, I guess the only way would be to deactivate the comment button in the Activity Feed, and force all comments to the lightbox to avoid confusion? But then there’s still the issue of having the same image post multiple times in the Activity Feed each time a new comment is added? Can this function be stopped?