Wordpress/BuddyPress as a POD
I think it would be great if a buddypress site could be made to act as a Diaspora pod.This would require seed migration as well. There is a lot of work going into wordpress/buddypress and I think Diaspora and its distributed protocol could benefit from it. Is this feasible? Any feedback on the idea and its feasibility is appreciated.
Dani'el LevityWed 25 Feb 2015 1:12AM
That would be incredible! I don't know how feasible it is but would donate towards a bounty
Adam LakeSun 1 Mar 2015 4:58PM
@allahhh , guess you are the only one. I was really hoping to get a developers perspective on the general scope and feasibility of this. If you know someone who would not mind, please tag them. Thanks.
Dumitru UrsuTue 3 Mar 2015 10:31AM
as long as it speaks the same protocol - there is no problem at all. At the moment diaspora* speaks a non-standard, older version of webfinger protocol.
WordPress already supports it https://wordpress.org/plugins/webfinger/ so there shouldn't be much work left.
Unfortunately there is a lot of work on diaspora*'s side of things, to catch up with the specs. There might be soon a new version of the spec, but we didn't catch up with the previous versions.
Adam LakeTue 3 Mar 2015 1:48PM
Thanks Demitru. Do you have a guess how long it would take to develop the code to make Buddypress a diaspora pod? Any thoughts on seed migration?
Thanks a lot for the link.
Dumitru UrsuMon 16 Mar 2015 2:28PM
I've worked on several wordpress projects, but never with buddypress. Sorry, no estimates. Even if I worked on one, my estimate would probably be wrong anyway :)
Adam Lake ·Wed 25 Feb 2015 1:07AM
Perhaps this belongs in a different group.