Still not enough friends.

I am still dealing with the restrictions the 'friends' system puts on my members. Without going into a long diatribe how the friends system in Dolphin limits everyone's ability to use this software, I am still looking for a way to solve this problem.

One of my users made a comment that made total sense to me.

I would like every person that joins my site to be friends with every other person on the site by default. It seems to me that would just be a switch somewhere.

I need to solve this problem. NONE of the sites I am building need this functionality.

I don't think it would be hard to do, but the way Dolphin is setup the friends table in the database would be HUGE. The way it works now is dolphin adds one line to the table (sys_friend_list) when someone sends a friend request: The line has ID, Profile, Check and When. "ID" is the person who sent the friend request, "Profile" is the person they sent it to, "Check" is 0 until the person accepts and then it's "1". "When" is the date and time it was sent. You would have to have the join form add that line for every current member of the site with the new users ID number. So if your site had 1000 members it would add 1000 lines to the sys_friend_list table when a new user joined. Then 1001 the next time. It would keep growing and growing.

I guess a better method would be to find every instance in the code where the site checks if someone is a friend and just have it return true.

Is there a way to get the list of pages that would have that snippet in it? A shortcut, so to speak?

There's no easy workaround this without major core modification.

I have tried this before last year when you wanted to do this.  as mscott noted the database table would be so big within a short time you would need a server just for mysql...

I think his second point would be best. many core file changes to make everyone friends with everyone is your best bet.

I have no choice... I have got to get rid of the limiting nature of the friends setup.

LOL, I could just redirect everyone to their friends accept page by default when they log in.

Is a thousand lines in the database a real deal breaker or is it a manageable amount.