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Howdy folks…have a suggestion to improve bbPress for everyone (I love the service, don’t want this to be taken as harsh criticism toward the terrific developers, etc)
I just started 2 sites running bbPress (http://NewsTalkPA.com and http://SportsTalkPA.com) and the # 1 question/complaint I get from people is “how do I get to select my profile picture”.
(Before we go any farther, yes, I have a sticky on both sites re: how to get a Gravatar pic)
I love bbPress, but with Automattic behind both Gravatar AND bbPress (AND Gravatar support being built right in) it is in everyone’s best interests if there were better directions internally for new folks that signup on bbPress sites re: how to select a Gravatar.
Hey, with WordPress, blogs, etc not everyone will comment and when they eventually do they might want to stay anonymous…BUT With bbPress its a little different. The whole point of signing up is to start chiming away and making yourself known by fleshing out your profile. People are pretty unhappy when they find out its difficult to select a picture.
Think about it: It’s pretty inconvenient for folks to signup on a site, get the email with their password, login, and then, BLAM, find out there is no direction as to how to get a Gravatar on their profile page (they are not going to see a Gravatar directions sticky unless they really look…trust me, they are looking under the profile information for picture stuff)
How about a little revamping on the profile editing pages with a link to the Gravatar website and a little direction that this is how they can select their profile picture. Any thoughts?
If bbPress included something like this the number of new Gravatar signups would skyrocket and the service would become even more widespread (There is NO downside to this)
This is NOT an attempt to knock _ck_ (any more than she meant to diss on Sam), as her points are totally valid and, in fact, I’m a member of ‘If it ain’t broke…’ If you’re ON .9 and everything works and you’re happy, then STAY. If you have needs that can no longer be met by .9, however, you may need to start looking into 1.0. There’s a reason that some people are still on WP 1.5ish releases. It works and they’re happy. There’s nothing wrong with it.
My reasons to use 1.0
1. You haven’t installed bbPress yet, so you don’t have an existing stable site.
2. You don’t actually use a lot of plugins anyway.
3. You can integrate with WP 2.8 and WPMU without having to hack the bbPress cookies (thanks to WP changing things all over the dang place…)
4. The Admin area ‘matches’ WP and, lets face it, pretty is better
5. If you’re going to write new plugins for bb, you may as well write them for the release version since that’s the way it’s going to be.
6. While it is slower, we’re not talking ‘it now takes 3 minutes to load a page’ like some bbs out there. And it’s still faster than WP.
7. Given the speed of servers these days, you may not ever notice the DB queries.
8. No matter how long you spend debugging, you’re never going to find all the bugs until something’s used for real by hundreds of users, so months vs years really doesn’t mean as much as you might think. Now DAYS versus months… Still, until a lot of people get out there and try to use it for weird ways, 1.0 won’t be as well tested as 0.9, but that’s true of any new release of software.
9. RC seems rushed, with a lot of slapped up fixes, but that’s because a group of us were out there breaking things for the rest of you. The major kinks are fixed.
10. Once you bite the bullet, the small upgrade to 1.0.1 (which is inevitable and we all know it) will seem like nothing.
11. You really want to see that download counter MOVE!
Okay, so some of mine are for the amusing side.
I’ve been on the 1.0 train since I started, since at the time you couldn’t do 2.7 WP and 0.9 BB. I’ve never had a major OMG! show stopper problem and I think bbPress is far far better than the old systems I’ve used. Small, simple, easy.
Thanks to Sam and also SO many thanks to _ck_ for her patience with stupid questions
@frooyo – I agree that changing the name to Release Candidate greatly increased community involvement. Marking a release as 1.0 stable seems like a scary way (to me) to increase involvement! But maybe the release will be stable, and my skepticism is unwarranted. Looking forward to seeing how the release goes.
But can I ask that you please not attack active members of the bbPress community? _ck_ has done more than almost any other volunteer to help extend the power of bbPress. I’ve seen a number of open source projects where someone is told that if they disagree with something, they should shut up and just fork the code. I hope that bbPress doesn’t become one of those sorts of projects.
Good luck with the release Sam!
I’m trying out bbPress, completely clean install, nothing fancy, my own machine with apache 2.2
Installation goes through without any problems, config file gets created, database gets filled.
When I trying to log on first time, the login page redirects me to incorrect location:
“POST /bb/bb-login.php HTTP/1.1” 302 –
“GET /bb/bb/ HTTP/1.1” 404 279
As can be seen, “bb” (the name of installation subdirectory) appears twice.
Lets work around the error by correcting the url manually in the browser:
“GET /bb/ HTTP/1.1” 200 3356
The forum appears to work fine, however attempt to click the “Admin” link (by the only existing, key master user) leads to even more peculiar behavior:
“GET /bb/bb-admin/ HTTP/1.1” 302 –
“GET /bb/ HTTP/1.1” 200 3356
As can be seen, server immediately redirects access back to the starting page (the correct one, unlike the “login” redirect).
Does anybody have any idea what can it be?
