Brandon Meyer

I don’t see where in the BuddyBoss website or video that “insinuates that BuddyPress is no longer maintained,” instead it claims that BuddyPress “is not evolving as well as we wish it did, and “development is moving too slowly.” Let’s not confuse the BuddyBoss theme, with the BuddyBoss Platform plugin, which is free AND licensed under GPLv3.

BuddyBoss was created to integrate many of the features that the developers, as theme developers found to be a necessity in almost every BuddyPress community site they built. So they created the platform plugin to avoid having to re-do the same work over, and over, again, while also improving the system to work seamlessly as a whole (they also bring up in the video that many of the same features missing from BuddyPress requires third-party plugins and that some important ones haven’t been updated in years, which is true).

While it’s true that BuddyBoss maintains the platform plugin (and does a great job I might add), I don’t think it’s fair to frame the issue as a big greedy corporation taking over open source. The BuddyBoss Platform plugin that is dominating the BuddyPress plugin is also open source. Don’t confuse the platform with the theme…

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