Timeline for Spin off BuddyPress into its own SE?
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| Dec 15, 2020 at 18:58 | comment | added | Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt | Yes, BuddyPress SE could suffer from the same problems reported for WordPress SE. At least the community for BPSE would go into things forearmed with the experience of WPSE. Hopefully avoiding some of the things WPSE encountered and including some of things WPSE did not include but maybe could have. If WPSE wants to make BuddyPress on topic, that's a whole other debate. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 18:51 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell Mod | You're also going to need a well defined scope with reasons behind it. There is the danger that you just become a free support hub for a premium BuddyPress add-on that newcomers can't even see unless they spend the money, or that all the time is spent on open ended questions and helping people fix issues with unrelated JS/CSS libraries because the site they used them on was built with BuddyPress. Try to get others to also do what you're doing as well as pledge support | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 16:29 | comment | added | Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt | If I understand, what you are saying is that this is not going to be easy and that there needs to be a critical mass of experts to get things off the ground? I would agree with that sentiment, which is why I have been reaching out to the community to gauge the level of support and the number of experts available. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 1:30 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell Mod | With WC, lots of positive sentiment, but nobody wanted to answer questions, and it didn't meet the activity requirements within the time limits. BP is in danger of the same thing happening if you're not careful | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 1:29 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell Mod | This would be great, I don't know much about BP though, but from my efforts to get the WC stack running I'll say it's a lot harder than it looks, you can get people to show interest and get through the first step but then people have to ask and answer questions and at a high enough rate for it to graduate on, which is easier said than done, as well as think of good questions that aren't just fixing individual peoples problems. If the stack is full of questions about how to fix my loop, but nobody asks how to write loops, it'll never get off the ground. | |
| Dec 14, 2020 at 19:22 | history | edited | Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify intention
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| Dec 14, 2020 at 18:59 | answer | added | Howdy_McGeeMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 14, 2020 at 18:02 | history | asked | Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |