Trying Some Stuff
Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Roger Benningfield
You’ll note the opening page has changed dramatically… all the Myspacey-stuff is gone, and if you login, everything is blog-focused. Two reasons:
- I’ve upgraded the underlying WordPress MU platform to version 2.7, which breaks some stuff in BuddyPress.
- I’m not convinced that “social network” thing is quite the feel I want for JournURL. There are aspects of it that I like, but they can be added in pieces, rather than forcing that whole thing down everyone’s throats.
I’m not saying we won’t revisit BuddyPress in the future… some impressive things might happen as development continues. But for right now, I’d like to see how I can tweak WPMU to bring it into line with some of the core ideas behind JournURL.
Actually, the social networking part was okay, kind of fun but I wasn’t comfortable with everything being all over… I like that about Journurl. When you log on, everything is right there. Just my slightly depressed two cents worth.
Interesting… that’s almost exactly how I felt. The “friending” process and so on was fine… but it all felt so damned scattered. Not nearly as coherent as I’d like.
site keeps hanging for me.
ok, that one went through. My original post was:
so the friends thing is gone? I’m getting a lot of “page not found” when clicking on e-mails taking me to responses regarding my activity on this site.
and my picture’s gone
I’m looking at ways of replacing a lot of that stuff while still making it feel more… forum-ish. Which isn’t to say I’ve written off BuddyPress completely, it just doesn’t play well with WPMU 2.7. Experiments are ongoing.