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Sir,
We don’t agree on these things, but its very cool we can discuss them openly, and in a manner such as this. My hats off to ya’.
On my site I offer Twitter and FB login via IntenseDebate and get people to use them all the time for commenting.
That’s awesome. Could you garnish us with some figures please mate, because the other figures and stats that i could find (Alexa etc.) all point to a poor take up of FBconnect, and a very low “new user” clickthrough – unless replying to a post from facebook (have to get that caveat in there because those stas look good).
Number of Users?
Number of Users who used to signing normally and now use FBconnect?
Number of Users who have never signed in normally but have only used FBconnect?
That would be really useful to us all i think, to put it in context.
You may call it the flavor of the week, but Facebook has more than 350 million active users.
It doesn’t, it has over 200million unique accounts, but it doesn’t have even 200million unique people (i personally run 17 FB accounts between myself, my company, and the charities i help out).
Dont get me wrong, the site is both huge and popular, but its not gotten the number of people that some folks claim. Heck according to Facebook’s Mark Z in February, when it overtook MySpace as the #1 social networking site in the US (again – in the US), that half of its userbase logs in once a day, and 80% of its userbase logs in at least once a month. Now in the month that it overtook MySpace, Alexa claims for 350million page views, its imply cant have 350million people. But that slightly off-topic, so lets bring it back.
If number of possible users is the main positive for FacebookConnect then it fails, as it actually comes 4th. So does that mean we should build FBconnect after writing the other 3 into the core? Or are we going with FBconnect because you use it…
- GoogleFreindFinder (or whatever its new branding is: apparently GoogleSingleSignon) has access to everyone with a (specific type of) gmail account and everyone on Okurt – it covers a ridiculous number of people (worldwide).
- MSN passport has access to everyone with an MSN or Yahoo email address for single signin.
- MySpace uses OpenID so OpenID has access to the third most users.
- Facebook comes in fourth (and there’s a big big gap betwen 3rd and 4th)
Also, its not so much that Facebook is the “flavour of the month”, its just that we’ve seen this all before. The dominant website in its field, looks like no-one will ever topple it and BAM, yesterdays news. The long you spent developing for the internet (this is my 15th paid year), the more you see the simple fact that content is what engages people, regardless of systems or context.
The reason we’re so adamant about this subject is not because we’re being stubborn, its because we’ve had this conversation before. We had it with AoL, we had it when Microsfot rolled out MyPasspost/Hailstorm, we had it when Microsfot rolled out Live, we had it with OpenID, we had it with myspace, We had it with GoogleSingleSignon. I, and in deed we, are not knocking Favebook or FBconnect – its just that its software owned and maintained by a company outwith BBpress, and sooner or later they are going to dip in popularity or make such a large change to the API that the standard BBpress will fail with no notice.
We know this, becuse they already did it 3 times this year
Imagine (as a user…please separate yourself from the admin process) visiting a forum and knowing you can immediately log in and join the discussion with your FB account.
1) You’re going to need a facebook account. There are not as many people with FB accounts as i think you think there are. Not to mention, Non-white, Non-North-America, Non-College-Educated, Non-Under-25s, Non-broadband-users are FAR FAR FAR less likely to have one (80% of FB users tick all those boxes).
2) If you are so engrossed/captivated/moved by the content of a forum post that you feel the need to add to the conversation, is registering really a deterant? As a user, if i really want to comment/reply/converse, i usually see what the registration process is like. I know from my phpBB forums, the drop off after the registration page is loaded is HUGE, and the drop off after a failed registration is over90%. I suggest you check your stats too. Alot more poeple go to registration pages than its presumed, but the registering process is where it ends.
3) Surely, if registration is the problem, our time is better suited on making that easier for the user.
4) Purely from an end user perspective (and not an admin), i dont want to use FBconnect, i can just use anonymous posting and thats the even easier option! FBconnect is a half way house for you as both a user and an admin, but it requires a massive amount of work for the BBpress team – again for a feature that not common, not worldwide, nor often-used.
Matt’s made a comments re: bbPress and forums a while back along the lines that forums really haven’t changed that much in the past ten years. Exactly. Allow stuff like FB connect to encourage conversations and bring them into the next century!
Surely good conversation and topics encourage conversations and not FBconnect. I doubt many people find a forum very boring, but feel compelled to join in just because the website lets them log in via FBconnect.
You know, when somethings been the same for a long time (is basic, usable without too much instruction, and does exaclty what it says on the tin) there usually isn’t a whole lot you can do to make it better; and on the rare occasion when there is… its usually come form a total overhaul and not adding to the original.
I say that because much smarter people than you and I have been using Forums for a greater number of years that either of us, and no-one has yet came up with a better format. There’s an inate desire in humans to make things better, but that does not mean that something can always be improved greatly simply because its worked the same way for a great amount of time.
Also, single signons became availible last century, heck last millenium, and they didn’t take off in the last 10 years because people didn’t want or like them; so somehow integrating FBconnect isn’t going to magically make forums current or “this century”.
I do not understand the opposition to making FB’s core more robust feature wise.
What is the harm in including additional features
We’ve had 1 developer (working close to part-time) on BBpress for 2 years.
We’ve had NO developer working on BBpress since July 15th.
The two main plugin suppliers have left the project.
The wiki / developer documentation is now a loans/spam/porn website
So, who are these magical little elves that are going to build and then maintain all these features??
It kind of reminds me of the Gnomes in South Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park).
1. Features
2. ???
3. Kill vBulletin
It seems like step 2, the bit where the work actually comes in, is just presumed to happen magically. Which is the only way it would happen, given that right now our development team consists of… no-one.
Adding more features to the core standardizes those features so they do not break in future builds
Adding thigns to the core doesn’t automatically stabalise them, a developer stablises them.
Again, that developer is currently… no-one.
Thats the issue BBpress has had for the last year. Sam added loads of things to the core, changed loads of functions, hardcoded alot of template functions into the core, and has now gone without telling anyone until months after (N.B. This was Sam’s pain emplyment, and is not a criticism of the man himself – merely a statement of the facts).
These things dont stabalize themselves, they need development, and adding them to the core does not guarentee that, all it does is guarenteee that time is taken away form other things.
allows even better plugins to be unveiled to customize them further.
BBpress 1.0.2 has bee a stable RC release for over 6 months now. Where are all these plug-ins? Where are all the plugin developers rushing to add functionality? Where are all the massively different customisations? *tumbleweed*
Let’s help bbPress evolve and become more robust featurewise so it buries vBulletin
Robust is the polar opposite of harcoding reliance on an extrnal and ever-changing API into core.
And mate, we’re not here to bury vBulletin, thats not the goal; we’re here to make forum software in accordance with the Philosphy and Features on the about page. IF you’re ever wondering if something fits into BBpress, always check https://bbpress.org/about/ and see if it fits into those 5 design philosophies. If it doesn’t, chances are, it wont be going into BBpress.
Take care, and good health.
Kev
I honestly don’t get this sudden push to make bbPress a WordPress plugin rather than continue as standalone software. There is so much potential for bbPress to grow and succeed in the 2010 standalone bulletin board market. Disagree? Think about this:
Remember back in 2004 when Movable Type pushed everyone away with their new pricing plan? The result: BLAM! WordPress REALLY took off, fitting the bill as a viable free easy-to-install, easy-to-use alternative.
One can make a strong argument that vBulletin is currently doing the same exact thing Movable Type did with their pricing plan snafu! (http://www.technologyquestions.com/2009/10/28/vbulletins-visceral-price-structure-angers-clients/) Check out this comment by donnacha which says even more: (http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/11/bbpress-lives/#comment-1321740)
Throw in how complicated phpBB and vBulletin are compared to bbPress (not to mention how easy bbPress is to pickup for those familiar with WordPress) and there is a major bulletin board niche opening for Automattic.
This current bbPress 1.1 development push can really provide a great vBulletin alternative if it is done right. Shine up bbPress so it has some of the default features vBulletin and other boards offer (as OPTIONS in the admin interface) and we will see an exodus a la Movable Type to WordPress in 2004.
Hi!
I am new to bbpress/buddypress
we are planning to migrate phpbb3 to bbpress,
so, we plan to have wpmu/bbpress/buddypress
what confuses me and my whole concept, is buddypress forums..
as it is, we plan to move php forums to bbpress
but where do buddypress forums stand?
sure, each group can have a forum – that’s all I know – so I guess they wont replace bbpress forums
Has anyone set up bbpress/buddypress forums? could I have a look at your site and how you are using forums?
Kind regards
Kris
Hello !
Me and my friends have a PhpBB2 forum hosted by a free forum hosting provider ( xooit.com ), but I’m planning to switch to BBPress on our own hosting space with LaTeX support ( which is important for a Physics/Maths forum ) .
The only problem is that xooit.com doesn’t give database access, so I can’t do a SQL backup …
Lets say I can manage to get the RSS2 feed of the forum ( I don’t know how, but lets suppose I can ), will bbPress be able to import the posts from that RSS2 feed ?
Thanks !
Topic: Converting BBPress to PHPBB
I hate to ask this, but is there an easy wasy to move over all the users and posts from BBPress to PHPBB?
Has anyone tried this yet?
Thanks,
Adam
Dear Developers,
I’ve recently use bbpages plugin.. its working fine..but i want one more thing in this plugin … here is url like my site
http://www.example.com/bb-page.php?page_id=3
i want to change it to
http://www.example.com/my-own-keyword.html
can any coder tell me how it possible?
i’ll be great thankful to you
here is plugins files
1. bb-page.php for root
<?php
require_once(‘./bb-load.php’);
$page_id = 0;
bb_repermalink();
if ( !$page )
bb_die(__(‘Page not found.’));
do_action( ‘bb-page.php’, $page_id );
bb_load_template( ‘page.php’, array(‘bb_db_override’, ‘page_id’) );
?>
2. page.php for template
<?php bb_get_header(); ?>
<?php if ( isset_id() ) : ?><?php if ( page_exist() ) : // Do not delete this ?>
<div class=”top_box”>
<h2><?php echo get_page_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”bbcrumb”>“><?php bb_option(‘name’); ?> » <?php echo get_page_title(); ?></div>
</div>
<div class=”post-content”>
<?php echo get_page_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php else: // If there is no page with id=X in database ?>
<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>404 – I’m sorry, but this page does not exist.</div></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php else: // If page ID is not specified or it equals 0 ?>
<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>Page is not specified.</div></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>
3. bb-pages.php for plugin
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPages
Plugin URI: http://astateofmind.eu/freebies/bbpages/
Description: Allows you to create static pages within your bbPress forum.
Author: F.Thion
Author URI: http://astateofmind.eu
Version: 0.0.2
license: GPL
donate: http://astateofmind.eu/about/support/
*/
function get_page_id() {
if ( isset ( $_GET ) ) :
$page_id = $_GET;
return $page_id;
endif;
}
function isset_id() {
if ( $_GET > 0 ) :
return true;
else:
return false;
endif;
}
function page_exist() {
global $bbdb, $bb;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_id FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);
if ( $query == true ) :
return true;
else:
return false;
endif;
}
function get_page_title() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_title FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);
foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_title;
}
}
function get_page_slug() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id, $page;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_slug FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);
foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_slug;
}
}
function get_page_content() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_content FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);
foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_content;
}
}
function list_pages() {
global $bbdb, $bb;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name ORDER BY page_order ASC”);
$status = array(
0 => ‘Draft’,
1 => ‘Published’
);
foreach ($query as $rk) {
echo ‘
<tr>
<td>’.$rk->page_id.'</td>
<td>’.$rk->page_title.'</td>
<td>’.$rk->page_date.'</td>
<td>’.$status[$rk->page_status].'</td>
<td>page_id.'”>Edit | page_id.'”>Delete | page_id.'”>View</td>
</tr>
‘;
}
}
function pages_panel() {
$action = $_REQUEST;
switch($action)
{
default:
?>
<h2>Manage Static Pages <small>(Create new page)</small></h2>
<table class=”widefat”>
<thead>
<tr>
<th style=’width:5%;’>ID</th>
<th style=’width:45%;’>Title</th>
<th style=’width:20%;’>Creation Date</th>
<th style=’width:10%;’>Status</th>
<th style=’width:20%;’>Actions</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php echo list_pages(); ?>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Please support the developer</h3>
<img src=”http://astateofmind.eu/uploads/donation.gif” style=”margin-right:10px” border=”0″ align=”left” />
Do you like this plugin? Do you find it useful? If so, please donate few dollars so I could keep develop this plugin and others further and further. Even the smallest help is greatly appreciated for a student in Poland
. <form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_donations”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”wojciech.usarzewicz@gmail.com”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”bbPages Donation”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”item_number” value=”bbPages Donation”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”no_shipping” value=”0″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”no_note” value=”1″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD” />
Type donation amount: $ <input type=”text” name=”amount” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”tax” value=”0″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”lc” value=”US”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”bn” value=”PP-DonationsBF”>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Donate with PayPal!” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>
<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/pl_PL/i/scr/pixel.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>
<p>Want to know what I’m developing right now? Follow me on Twitter, ignore 90% of stuff and learn a lot you will
. And thank you for using my plugin!</p><?php
break;
case “add”:
global $bbdb, $bb;
if (isset($_POST))
{
$page_title = $_POST;
$page_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes( “$page_title”, “” );
$page_content = $_POST;
$page_order = $_POST;
$page_status = $_POST;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = “INSERT INTO ” . $table_name .
” (page_id, page_date, page_content, page_title, page_status, page_slug, page_order) ” .
“VALUES (0, NOW(), ‘”.$page_content.”‘, ‘”.$page_title.”‘, ‘”.$page_status.”‘, ‘”.$page_slug.”‘, ‘”.$page_order.”‘)”;
$bbdb->query($query);
?><div class=”updated”><p>Page has been saved.</p></div> <?php
}
?>
<h2>Add new page</h2>
<form class=”settings” method=”post”>
<fieldset>
<div>
<label for=”page_title”>
Page title </label>
<div>
<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” />
<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label for=”page_order”>
Page order </label>
<div>
<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” />
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label for=”page_content”>
Page content </label>
<div>
<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />
</fieldset>
<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”add_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Add page’, ‘add_page’) ?>” />
</form>
<?php
break;
case “edit”:
global $bbdb, $bb;
if (isset($_POST)) {
$page_id = $_POST;
$page_title = $_POST;
$page_content = $_POST;
$page_order = $_POST;
$page_status = $_POST;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = “UPDATE “.$table_name.” SET page_content='”.$page_content.”‘, page_title='”.$page_title.”‘, page_status='”.$page_status.”‘, page_order='”.$page_order.”‘ WHERE page_id='”.$page_id.”‘”;
$bbdb->query($query);
?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page updated…</p></div> <?php
}
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);
foreach ($query as $rk) {
$id = $rk->page_id;
$title = $rk->page_title;
$content = $rk->page_content;
$order = $rk->page_order;
$status = $rk->page_status;
}
?>
<h2>Edit page</h2>
<form class=”settings” method=”post”>
<fieldset>
<div>
<label for=”page_title”>
Page title </label>
<div>
<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$title”; ?>” />
<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label for=”page_order”>
Page order </label>
<div>
<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$order”; ?>” size=”10″ />
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label for=”page_content”>
Page content </label>
<div>
<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ><?php echo “$content”; ?></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />
</fieldset>
<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”save_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Save page’, ‘save_page’) ?>” />
</form>
<?php
break;
case “delete”:
global $bbdb, $bb;
$id = $_GET;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$query = $bbdb->get_results(“DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);
$bbdb->query($query);
?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page deleted…</p></div> <?php
break;
}
}
function pages_admin_menu() {
bb_admin_add_menu(__(‘Manage Pages’), ‘administrate’, ‘pages_panel’);
}
function bbpages_install() {
global $bbdb;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;
$bbdb->query(“CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_name (
page_id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
page_date datetime,
page_content text,
page_title varchar(255),
page_status int(1),
page_slug varchar(255),
page_order int(11),
PRIMARY KEY (page_id)
)”);
}
bb_register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘bbpages_install’);
add_action( ‘bb_admin_menu_generator’, ‘pages_admin_menu’ );
?>
Note: I want to mention here that the author of this plugin is no more active. He make this plugin but something is wrong with this pluing. he tell us wrong path for plugins files. But I’ve little bit knowledge of php that’s why i correct its path now the path of the plugins files which I’ve mentioned above is totally correct and working fine.
Now I really need to your help. If someone will not guide me then I’ll leave this software “bbpress” and I’ll move to vBulletin or phpbb after disheart….
So I’m waiting for positive answers from developers… Thanks … And Love you all
Hi all, needed some help with wordpress.
my wordpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/
my bbpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/forums
followed instructions for the cookies and still resulted in me loggin in 1 side and auto-logout on the other.
also would like to know which plug-in should i use for the wordpress if i want ,primarily to…
– i want my wordpress homepage to show 5 columns x 5 rows of latest post image, which will be grabbed from a few specific forum in BBpress. i also need a few buttons to sort or filter results by recent,by view counts, by specific forum
-i want my wordpress to have a few horizontal navigation bars at the header instead of the default ones at the side.
-i want to be change the default header image to my own and able to make my left/right sides blank like this forum. the left/right sides should be easily customized with my preferred wallpaper.
i hope i’m not asking for too much.
thanks in advance
Oh and i just wanted to add on this ck thing. People dont’t donate things that easily, and many of us are searching for something for nothing, but you were obviously disheartened. I have run a mac support site in different form for years, using different forums and its been hacked (lost thousands of posts) derided and the donation button clicked once or twice, there are bigger, slicker better sites, but I like to think people still use my site because I don’t look down my nose at anyone and keep it simple.
I would ask you from the heart, put your site back up and don’t give up…hey I don’t even know you but a little research tells me you have put alot in. You may think its time to cut your losses, on the other hand it might also be time to promote a clean simple forum.
AND beleive me I dont see a lot of promotion going on outside of the circle. If everyone who uses bbpress had a blog and did an article “the best forum software” a little blurb and put bbpress at the top of a a list of 5 lets say bbpress vb, smf, phpbb and a.n.other board….instant promotion. People are setting up forums all the time but dont know which software to use. I found bbpress by accident and am using smf at present but transferring data as we speak….main problem right now is where are the themes?
Why is this starting to remind me of XOOPS cms
