Bug report / fix: Comments getting shown on wrong links

The generate_cloud_id function in bp-links-classes.php generates an id which is incompatible with how buddypress stores item_ids (BIGINT) in the wp_bp_activity table. This results in that column often getting filled with 0 which means that comments are getting shared between all links with an item_id of 0.

I’ve temporarily fixed this on my install by changing the md5 hash generation to a simple concatenation of rand(0,9999) + time() + rand(0,9999) to generate an integer no larger than 20 characters. This seems to have fixed the problem for me.

Code as follows (line 298 of bp-links-classes.php):

private function generate_cloud_id() {
	global $bp;

	if ( $this->url ) {
		return rand(1,999) . time() . rand(1,999);
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}

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