[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #8734: Introduce simple "Private Site" toggle

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#8734: Introduce simple "Private Site" toggle
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 Reporter:  dcavins          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  11.0.0
Component:  Core             |     Version:  10.4.0
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
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Comment (by imath):

 After your 3 comments I confirm I understood you don’t want us to include
 such a basic feature. Thanks a lot for your interest in the project
 directions. I want to read other people points of view, you clearly made
 your point but I don’t understand why a basic private community feature
 would do so much arm to the plugins ecosystem or would transform
 BuddyPress all of a sudden to something completely different than it is
 today.

 I’d like to stress the fact that without users, there’s no BuddyPress or
 BuddyPress plugins. That’s more concerning imho than an option into the
 dashboard. BuddyPress plugin authors should be more involved into
 contributing to BuddyPress, I’m glad you often share your opinion, but I’m
 concerned not many others are at least beta testing the BuddyPress beta
 release. You’re talking about API’s but I never saw a patch from you to
 improve existing ones. Show the way! Build patches & contribute to
 code/tests and documentation, we’ll be very happy to be able to benefit
 from your work.

 There would be things to think about on the BuddyPress plugins topic : how
 come each time I read from a user about it, it’s negative like « broke »
 or « no more maintained », etc.

 We are clearly observing a huge decrease on active installs stats. This
 basic feature might not be the thing to inverse the trend, but it would at
 least show a basic private community can be easily built for users who
 only need a logged in user only community area. It doesn’t prevent plugins
 to build something more granular. So to me we can still consider it for
 11.0.0.

 Instead of saying « no » with the plugins perspective only in mind, let’s
 open our eyes on users who won’t search for plugins once they figured out
 there’s not even a basic switch to private pages like it exists in
 WordPress.

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