On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/ >> >> Anyone dug into it? Calls for an autonomous-centric review, since some >> seem to think social networking is the highest priority for FNS. > > I've been watching other people discuss it, and it appears to have > some Issues.
It was unfair of me to dump this out there and then leave it hanging. The big issue from our perspective, offhand, is that it appears to be designed/implemented to re-invent the isolated social network wheel. You're not installing it in an individual instance of wordpress and then connecting with other instances (as DiSo has been talking about, though not delivering, for ages) but installing within wordpress multi-user and using that to build a network within the one wordpress-mu install. Creating new large islands, in other words, not connecting smaller islands like laconi.ca can do. There are other little things (breaks wp openid plugin, 'messaging' is internal, walled-garden messaging, fb-style instead of email, etc.) but that one is the big one from our perspective. That said, I bet we'll see it pick up steam, as wordpress has done; it at least seems worth looking at as a starting point if one were going to try to build a libre social network. Luis _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
