[kevinjohngallagher]

Anonymous Posting also worked brilliantly with bbPress0.9 and the Anonymous posting plugin.

[wtfmatt]

He didn’t reply to me

NO SURPRISE there huh.

0.9 … 1.0 … 1.1

How is anyone supposed to understand what is going on with all these releases. How can any reasonable and hard working member of the bbpress community still be in support of Matt?

Matt’s claims in IRC were now 6 months ago. You really believe them?

And again I say that TRAC and IRC logs are NOT true “public” records. What is the point of the bbpress forum? Just to test out the software?

AGAIN I PROPOSE:

a) bug the living hell out of Matt until we get answers … or

b) fork bbPress July 2010

Matt already hates/ignores/constantly-lies-to bbPress anyway, so its a no-loss set of options above. He has obviously reached the state of being a super rich, “content” guy who doesn’t give a crap about anything anymore, which is great and congratulations to him, but screw his rudeness and immaturity and let’s arrive at some new plans of action.

I am not attacking citizenkeith or anyone else on a personal level. I’m attacking the users that keep trying to derail this thread and/or these important issues with petty condescending whining. These issues are critical and to employ playground politics is retarded and wastes everyone’s time.

Matt: if you read this, you only have one viable option at this point buddy, which is offer a sincere apology, update the blog, guide the devs to decide on a branch and future plans with WP plugin/standalone options, and INFORM the bbpress community of your decisions…

[Gautam Gupta]

Any email response from Matt yet?

He didn’t reply to me, but you can also check here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress09-support-finishing-early#post-69893

For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information.

Any plugin author can update his/her plugin. That problem didn’t arise.. where did you hear/read that from?

the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly

That is what Trac is about, anyone can see the developments, communicate and contribute.

Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?

In an IRC meetup, Matt said that bbPress will start becoming a WP plugin near 1.2 or so. (and that IRC meetup is also posted on the blog)

@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.

citizenkeith is a valuable member to the community and has been here for long, so please.

[Gautam Gupta]

@kevin

The code has not been deleted and it wont be deleted, only the milestone is deleted. You can still download the 0.9 branch from Trac which contains a few bug fixes from 0.9.0.6.

Also, 1.0.3 is same as 1.1 (except that it wont contain new features if it is released), nor there are any database changes in it till now. If any user upgrades to 1.1, he/she can easily downgrade to 1.0.2 any time.

[wtfmatt]

@Gautam,

Your response is appreciated. Maybe a mod can copy paste your answers into a sticky thread. Any email response from Matt yet?

So mdawaffe is the only confirmed webmaster for bbpress.org, and he doesn’t seem to pay attention to any feedback or bugs. I guess that has been confirmed at least… Chris, do you have access or not? This really ain’t the biggest concern right now, but it would help the community to know who deals with this site, as Matt does not actively. For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information. This is whay I mean by “higher ups” – its great that 3-4 devs are having private IRC chats together and exchanging emails, but last time I checked, the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly. Hell, this forum itself barely has any staff or moderators to speak of. And even the forum regulars have no way to get in touch with “higher ups” even if they wanted to, so bbpress is 99% hearsay at this point. BIG PROBLEM.

Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?

Coders and designers want and need to know these answers guys. I’m only speaking up for the silent majority and dozens of unanswered threads, this is not just my personal rant.

@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/rename

[chrishajer]

login-less posting is a feature present in the latest trunk release. It’s not packaged for release yet, and there are some dependencies (notably BackPress). If you can download via subversion to your intranet server, that would be the best way to get it.

svn co -r2434 http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk ./forums

That will check out revision 2434 which is very stable, into a directory called forums on your server.

The revisions after that revision got a little weird with a couple problems that I am not sure are fixed yet.

[maxx246]

So I’ve installed bbpress a few times and finally got things integrated with wordpress.

I have no idea why I did it but playing around I removed the /forum in the General Settings.

Now the bbpress doesn’t work anylonger. Duuuuuuu

Anyways I’d like to find out were I could set this back so that I can put /forum after my website again so it works.

Thanks for your help

[ckeck]

I am setting up a new intranet site built on WP 3.0 and would really like to keep the forums to a very simple tool just like bbPress (phpbb, vbulletin, etc are all too bloated for our needs). Since the site is only accessible inside our company network I don’t want to have to worry about authentication, I would like the ability for users who visit the forum to simply post messages or responses.

Is this something that can be done out of the box or would a lot of custom work be involved? Thanks!

-Chad

[Rian]

Thanks for reply.

I know it seems there are easily accessible solutions out there.

But I found out that it doesn’t really “hide” or “secure” my forum,

rather lead out-siders, who’s not really welcome to my forum,

to register.

(I am planning on to modify register and log-in system in the bbpress somehow,

so that only the accepted people can join the forum)

I know this is quite frustrating problem,

since this is not frequent asking or ideas about forum.

(Who ever would want forum to be completely hidden?)

Regard.

Ariel.

[patrizier]

Looks like my country (Argentina).

Maybe things change.. i hope so..

[Elias]

The things I see here are exactly the same indifference towards the user’s needs I had to see in the WP development for the last years. As I said some months ago, it is the WordPress style of “communication” growing here.

Yesterday, I announced on my little site that I will abandon any further work on my german localization of bbPress and suggested the usage of another bulletin board system. It was the silent decision to end the bbPress 0.9 support, which made me sure that bbPress is in a dead end and that no one of the “relevant” people (which do their decisions in an anti-communicative and anonymous way) wants to change this direction.

I am fed up with people dreaming of “world domination” with writing almighty PHP applications and ignoring the needs of the users. It is grim, meaningless, void. bbPress is dead.

[citizenkeith]

I use Hidden Forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

I just make everything forum hidden, and everything works fine. I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for though.

[Rartemass]

I’ve setup a wordpress and bbpress blog/forum.

In wordpress I have added a plugin to display the user login/registration screen by default. So unless you login you can’t access the blog.

Logins will only be created manually by me.

I want the same for the forum but can’t find a plugin.

Please assist.

[zaerl]

Ah. It would have been funny (for me) to make that plugin but Tapatalk is a paid closed-source application. Ah. And I’m not a bbPress developer

[severus]

Hi,

I just wanted to present the result of an integration of BBpress to an stablished WPress site.

BBpress: 1.0.2

Wp: 2.9.2

WP site: http://www.severus.es

BBpress site: http://www.severus.es/foro

We are very happy with the results!

Thanks

Severus

[citizenkeith]

I’m using Tapatalk on my iPhone right now, accessing an SMF forum and I love the layout. It’s much easier to browse, reply and post with Tapatalk than using Safari on the iPhone.

According to Tapatalk’s website:

“Tapatalk is a forum app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia. The app provides super fast forum access to any vBulletin, IPBoard, phpBB and SMF forums that have activated Tapatalk. Forum owner can download the free plug-in to activate Tapatalk in your forum.”

I searched their site for mention of bbPress, and found this thread:

http://tapatalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10919

The final post, from the moderator: “we can provide the API doucment if someone from the BBPress team want to take the bullet to implement it. I know that someone has ported it to MyBB so I don’t see why not?”

I would love to see a Tapatalk plugin for bbPress (especially one that supports v0.9).

Interested parties should check the “About Us” page on the Tapatalk website…

[kevinjohngallagher]

I don’t think anyone’s against getting the next version of bbPress out the door

My concerns are:

• If bbPress0.9 support was meant to last until late 2010, why end it in May?
• Why/When was this decision taken?
• Why not inform us before the code was deleted?
• In fact, why not inform us at all?

Basically:

Sam wrote, as an employee of Automattic, that bbPress0.9 branch would be maintained until ‘late 2010’, how can this be true if we’ve had patches for 0.9 sitting since July2009 without a rollout, and are now not being released?

bbPress 1.0.2 and bbPress 0.9.0.6 legacy version released

That effectively means we’ve not been supporting 0.9 since 0.9.0.6 was released on 28thJuly 2009. Awesome, we supported it for a whole 25 days after 1.0 was released (on 3rd July 2009).

Thats a heck of a decision to go back on One’s word like that. And a considerable slap in the face to those of us who have forums still stuck on 0.9 due to 1.0’s failings.

Here’s another issue.

I don’t think we should update the 0.9 branch anymore, and probably not 1.0 either. (Same as WP.)

Matt looks at this project as if it’s working in the same way WP is. It’s not. And I think thats why he’s found the “bbPress community” so hard to get a grip on.

bbPress0.9 and bbpress1.0 are very very different. It’s not a simple upgrade in the way that many versions of WordPress have been – it’s a total and utter rewrite of the backend to use external code being run by a totally different team as an independant product.

bbPress0.9 and bbPress1.0, whichever you prefer to work with, are not incremental releases in the traditional sense – they are very close to being different products. That was reflected in the communities strong desire to have support for bbPress0.9 extended when Sam asked us. Thats right folks, we were asked and voted. Then a decision was made. And thats the crux of the problem.

Saying one thing, doing another, then not mentioning it in the hope no-one notices until weeks after – man, thats just not cool. And the kicker is, I don’t think it’s intentional at all. That’s worse though, because it means we’re a total afterthought (maybe not even an afterthought).

If the decision was made to drop 0.9 support, all someone had to do was make a blog post, or a forum sticky before hand and give folks a heads up. Why is it so hard to treat us with any respect?

Those of us who can’t write brilliant code, attempt to do our best by answering questions on the forums. My plugins will never rival some of _ck_s / Nightgunners / Zaerls. Thats a good thing. My code will never be as good for the Core as Gautam / Sam / mdwaffe. Thats even better news. But really, how can we answer questions that people ask with any certainty at all, when things like this happen (constatly)?

Help us, help you!

please.

[_ck_]

LOL, filing a bug in the bugtracker doesn’t magically get features working, there’s no-one to work on extra things like that these days.

But I think the problem is that the admin section must be checking the base url somewhere for security that I am not catching and doesn’t like it, so it redirects it.

My current guess is it’s happening in function bb_auth which I am examining now.

Ah it’s probably because bbPress 1.x has the secure_auth cookie where 0.9 does not, makes things much more complicated since you have to be logged in under SSL as well.

[chrishajer]

rescued from Akismet

[Elias]

Ouch, “minor errors” and “Forums not installed” isn’t exactly user-friendly…

I suspect the installer script wasn’t able to create the file bb-config.php caused by too restrictive permissions in the directory bbPress is installed in. To create this file, the directory have to be writeable for the user running the webserver. If this is the cause of this failure (look for a file bb-config.php in the bbPress directory, if it is missing, it is the problem), just give the directory 0777 permissions before starting the installation. After the installation completed, the permissions can be (and should be) set more restrictive.

[ckeck]

Yes, lets get 1.1 out the door please

[kevinjohngallagher]

Glad it helped mate.

If building your own theme, I’d advice making a wordpress theme first.

The technique is the same and once you’re in the right mindset, you’d be amazed hoe easy theming bbPress is. But you will/might hit a few roadblocks if you try and pull data in a differnet way. Don’t be peturbed, just come back and ask

[btko]

Those Cube cars are cool, and I like your custom forums. Speaking of moving from PHPBB did you import your old database into the bbpress database?

[ohcean]

1. I installed the forums using same info as WordPress database

2. After installation it said forums were installed with minor errors -> “Forums not installed”. which contradict each other.

3. Every time I go to the forum page http://ohcean.com/bbpress/ it redirects to the install page http://ohcean.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php (which I removed, so now it’s a blank URL).

4. I activated the plug in in wordpress

5. I changed the cookies.

6. It’s still redirecting to the install page.

Why does it keep redirecting to the install page?