Don't get me wrong; I think the sitemap is a good idea, but it can't fix anything wrong with your site. It just lists all the content that is available on your site and submits that to the search engine. It's almost a crutch for having BAD SEO:

"including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process."

If the site were optimized, Google's normal crawl process could handle it.

Again, don't get me wrong, I think sitemaps are a good idea. I use them. But it doesn't *fix* any SEO problems with your site. That was my only point.

From Google:
"Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process."

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318&hl=en

We hope there will be no difficulty at all.

IMHO every new feature should have option to disable it within admin panel without resorting to tinkering with wp/bb-config files

hopefully the stable version packed with new features (like the i-Phone related one) will leave users the choice to use them or not

so how abou adding some kind of post revisions? good idea as well...

Not only does 1.0 gut huge sections of code that were perfectly working under 0.9 and need to be replaced but it also replaces entire concepts (like the new object cache). There is a huge amount of work to do and I don't envy Sam and Michael's jobs right now. Then it will need lots of testing and debugging.

Then there is plugin stability since everything is in a state of flux. I can't even keep up with the changes anymore, I've stopped updating my plugins until things settle down a bit.

Sam is currently working on trackbacks (pingbacks) now which was suppose to be the big new "feature" for 1.0 IMHO it's a huge waste of time that could be spent elsewhere in the code but pingbacks on forums was something Matt wanted, so he gets what he wants obviously. However it will be the first feature I delete (not just disable, but delete) since XML-RPC was the #1 security problem with WordPress over the years. It's also going to be a spammer's delight.

I somehow worked out the first problem and the latest version of Karma plugin (0.0.5) solved the second problem so now everything is working perfectly

thank you for the update of the plugin and quick response

What changes did you have to do to Post-Count-Plus?
It should have been fixed with the newest version.

I just posted 0.0.3 of reputation which should work now.

I'll look at the quotes plugin.

add_action('bb_head','auto_close_topic');
function auto_close_topic() {
global $topic;
if (is_topic() && $topic->topic_open===1) {
$old=time()-3600*24*90; // 90 days default
if (strtotime($topic->topic_time)<$old) {
bb_close_topic($topic->topic_id);
$topic->topic_open=0;  // just in case the cache doesn't clear
}
}
}

No

> Does it make bbPress forum more SEO friendly?

No

All the sitemap does is submit a list of URLs to a search engine. It doesn't do anything else.

I had the plugin installed for some time and on one sunny day I couldn't post any reply

I deactivated the plugin and everything went back to normal

I would add to the list :

Admin Can Post Anything 0.5
Ajaxed Quote (very last 1.0 release)
bbPress Attachments 0.1.11
bbPress Sitemap Generator 0.61
Google Analitycs 0.1

Works for me too

The one available is not working with 1.0 Alpha

what is missing most is the working plugin for quotes...