i am starting a social networking site using ELGG, hosting by Arvixe. I am using the newest version of ELGG (1.8.3 i believe) and i really have zero IT experience, although copying and pasting is not beyond me haha. ELGG has been very useful for me and easy for me to understand and im very appreciative of its creators, as im sure plenty of ppl in my position are. I especially like the idea of the wire, as i believe it is much more social for people to have a place where everyone can see everyone's posts and comments and participate in the same place. However, i find the way discussion takes place to be obnoxious, unorganized, and will be very unfamiliar to my target users, who these days are used to a more "facebook" or "myspace" designed discussion. i would like the wire, on my site to operate much the same as a facebook group, with posts containing their replies under them neatly and easy to comprehend, instead of this insane discussion format where everything is in "thread-mode" and comments are not attached to their posts, save for a separate thread window, etc etc. maybe a lot of you prefer this, but my question is: is there a plug-in or easy fix for me to make the wire, and any other discussion act more like a traditional, modern social networking site, such as facebook??? (preferably not in a theme, as i only have the skills to use something like the easy theme plugin to get my site to use the colors and logos i want) ill keep looking in the meantime, but id love for someone here to be able to direct me to the plug-in that would help me the most. thank you all :)
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You can try using Ismayil Khayredinov's plugins. I think they will meet your needs.
First, you need to download and activate this one:
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/798954/developer/ihayredinov/hypeframework-18
After that, download, activate, and configure this plugin:
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/809893/developer/ihayredinov/hypealive-18
Rodolfo Hernandez
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i actually have both of those saved to my hard drive and tried to use them briefly. i received all kinds of deprecation comments in my admin dashboard and it made everything look pretty crazy. i installed them correctly, and placed hypealive below hypeframework. they seemed to work a little better once i moved them both off the bottom of the plugins query, but i still had problems. thanks for the links. im going to try them again and see if perhaps the problem isnt just that im an idiot lol
ok the problem before was definitely my own assininity. this is working fine for me now! you rock rodolfo! my only qualm with this plugin would be that the only thing that seems to be getting the hypealive treatment is the activity stream, which im afraid might confuse some users. i would also like for a comment to send its parent post back to the top of the feed, but thats more of a wishlist than an expectation. either way, i am still miles beyond where i was before and i have a renewed feeling of productivity, thanks to you :)
The next release of hypeAlive will have an option to reverse the order of comments (oldest to newest or newest to oldest). Additionally, activity stream comments will be attached to object entities, rather than an activity item.
i will be eagerly awaiting! i am very thankful for your technical skills, ismayil :)