[buddypress-dev] Data Portability and Microformats

[Andy Peatling]

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Andrea <sillyandrea at gmail.com> wrote:
> I totally second this part. Piping in or to popular things like  
> Twitter is way better than yet one more thing. I already tweet  
> enough! :D
>
> Also, if there was some way it could check gravatars first for my  
> avatar (which, honestly, I just use the same one everywhere) then  
> that'd be very cool.

> On 2-Apr-08, at 5:41 PM, Donnie La Curan wrote:
>
>> I would leave this out of BuddyPress by default, but someone could  
>> make a plugin for it.
>>
>> I'd like to see BuddyPress come as is out of the box not requiring  
>> other services to use certain features.  Keep the core features of  
>> BuddyPress within itself and then other developers can come in and  
>> make plugins for whatever outside services they want to use.
>>

The use of external services to populate information within a  
BuddyPress installation is a nice idea. This would always need to be a  
secondary option though. You shouldn't have to sign up for accounts  
with other services to use all the features fully.
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