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    ljmac on June 24, 2016 at 5:12 pm in reply to: [Resolved] Spam In FB-Like Activity Stream #4393

    It might be worth adding that what BuddyPress calls ‘spam’ is usually the result of deleted activities – that was the case here.

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    ljmac on June 21, 2016 at 3:02 pm in reply to: [Resolved] Filter out groups from FB-liake user activity stream #4344

    I probably should stress that I am talking about the “My Stream” in FB-Like User Activity Stream (although I’ve renamed it “News Feed” as per Facebook).

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    ljmac on June 21, 2016 at 10:59 am in reply to: A Good Idea for a Tutorial? #4337

    Hi Brajesh,

    I am actually thinking in terms of what Facebook does – there, once somebody posts on your wall, you can do with it as you please – delete it, change the privacy or whatever. However, as I said it MUST be restricted to activity posts to a specific person’s profile – we can’t allow deleting of activities intended for a wider audience.

    Still, I guess implementing a system to optionally prevent people from posting on your wall would be a reasonable compromise – indeed, I think this would be a good idea whether we allow activity deletion or not.

    I absolutely agree that being able to delete comments on one’s own activities is an absolute must. Perhaps you could make the activity deleting capability an optional extra for those who think it’s useful.

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    ljmac on June 21, 2016 at 1:25 am in reply to: [Resolved] Activity as Wire PHP error #4323

    I confirm that Activity As Wire 1.0 works perfectly with BP 1.8, so rants aside, I’m marking this thread as resolved. 🙂

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    ljmac on June 19, 2016 at 2:20 am in reply to: [Resolved] Activity as Wire PHP error #4309

    Hi Brajesh,

    I must say I have similar feeling about the direction of WordPress itself – I’m still on 3.7.14, as I don’t know of any essential new features they’ve added since then. Plus I prefer the interface of 3.7.14 (I HATE the current ‘flat’ UI trend), and it gets automatic security updates (now THAT was a useful feature).

    Still, BP really seems absurd sometimes. I read how they added a rich text editor to the profile fields (which already had privacy controls), while AFAIK activity updates and comments still don’t have one (or privacy controls for that matter). What is with the BP development team’s obsession with profile fields? These are just a minor thing, but they lavish so much effort on them, while ignoring the obvious need for the same feature elsewhere. I just don’t get it.

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    ljmac on June 17, 2016 at 1:45 am in reply to: [Resolved] Activity as Wire PHP error #4290

    Okay, thanks for the info. I am reluctant to upgrade BP as I depend on a few older plug-ins that will very likely be broken. I also have to say that the most of the new stuff that has been added is not terribly useful to me (and what is useful was already well covered by existing plug-ins), while frustratingly they continue to avoid adding the stuff that should have been there from day one (most notably, privacy settings throughout, instead of just for the profile fields where it’s probably needed the least). The continued lack of integration with existing WordPress core features is also frustrating, while they waste code and effort reinventing the wheel. Why did they create user types for BP instead of leveraging the existing user types in WordPress, for example? Why can’t we favourite stuff in the front end? Etc. etc.

    Anyway, enough ranting. I’ll try 1.0.

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    ljmac on June 15, 2016 at 2:05 am in reply to: [Resolved] Activity as Wire PHP error #4241

    I’ve now tried 1.02 as well, and it produces the same error on line 124.

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    ljmac on June 13, 2016 at 3:53 am in reply to: Upgrading from BP-Album #4221

    Oh, I probably should mention that BP-Album has the same codebase as BuddyPics, so anything that works with that will work with BP-Album as well.

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    ljmac on June 13, 2016 at 2:55 am in reply to: Upgrading from BP-Album #4220

    Is there a way to upgrade from BP-Album to BP Gallery? If so I could upgrade to MediaPress after that.

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    ljmac on June 12, 2016 at 3:02 pm in reply to: [Resolved] Activity as Wire for friends only #4213

    Yes! It works! I’ll have to remember that friends_check_friendship( bp_displayed_user_id(), bp_loggedin_user_id() ) function – could come in handy for a lot of things.

    BTW, the function you posted late last year to allow friends AND followers in the FB-Like User Activity Stream works as well (this was another holy grail for me). I’ve finally got the social networking on my site working the way I want!