https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/10386

Thank you for the feedback, but the best place to report issues is on GitHub https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues.

You can also request features (like your suggestion for the registration form).

Hi @zerosandones,

thanks for your feedback. You have some valid points. Some are already mentioned as feature requests or bug reports. It would be nice if you take a look at https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues and see if a feature request or bugreport already exists. If not, it would be great if you could create one per issue. This way we can keep track of all the issues.

Thank you both. I added a couple posts to the issues tracker. I did not add anything about registration spam because I see that's been discussed before. It sounds like most registration spam options involve third parties which I agree wouldn't be good for core. But, a bundled plugin wouldn't be a bad idea. An Akismet bundled plugin or something? Does Akismet work well? I've always used it with WordPress sites but, I don't really know how well it works. 

I also realized, by looking at Jeroen's reply to this post, that there isn't core mentions support. I didn't add this to the tracker either because I saw it was already discussed. But, my opinion is, even if it is very basic and doesn't even notify the user at first, mentions is a key component for this type of platform. Like I said, it could be basic at first. Roll it out in phases. First make it so that you can mention someone and it links to their profile. Then, because I assume it's harder, work on the notification part for a separate release. 

OK - I'm making progress. :)

I have learned that plugin order makes a difference. With that in mind, I checked the order of things in the Plugins panel in the admin. "No Friends" was still last on the page, leaving it where it was (the last plugin I added). I moved it up the list to the (roughly) alphabetical "F" position (for "(No) Friends!"), so above the "Group" and "Group Tools" plugins.

And it had the desired effect: I have "No Friends" enabled, and the CSV upload is still working. So, all is as it should be.

... Well, almost as it should be: I just noticed that this also re-enables the "Popular" tab on the member page, which was dealt with in the link provided in the first message of this thread.

So ... plugin order makes a difference, but there's still a conflict in there somewhere that probably ought not to be.

Not fatal, of course! FWIW. (And sorry for talking to myself ... I feel like I'm live blogging my morning.)

My guess is that the "No friends" plugin where the Popular tab is unregistered is now above the Members plugin where this tab is added in the first place. So, it might work by just changing the order of these two plugins to get the Popular tab hidden again.