Steve

bbPress Version Popularity

1.1 : 1%
1.0 : 48%
0.9 : 36%
0.8 : 15%   (includes sites below 1.x that hide their version
as 0.8 has no consistent way to be detected)

PHP Popularity

5.3 : 4%
5.2 : 70%
5.1 : 4%
5.0 : 1%
4.4 : 6%
4.3 : 1%
?? : 15% (unknown)

So PHP version 5 adoption has finally taken off in late 2010.

Server Popularity

Apache 	 	: 40%  	  (specific version unknown)
Apache/2.2 	: 35%
Apache/2 	: 10%	  (sub-version unknown)
Apache/1.3 	: 5%
Nginx 		: 5%
Microsoft-IIS	: 3%
Litespeed 	: 2%

(and quite a few others/variations but below a single percent each)

Downloads via bbPress.org as of October 2010

bbPress 0.9 : 150,000+
bbPress 1.0 : 129,000+
_ck_ plugins: 102,000+ (total, all included)

United States
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Italy
Turkey
Poland
Brazil
Canada
China
Netherlands
Sweden
Japan
Australia
Denmark
Romania
Ukraine
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Finland
Norway
Argentina
Thailand
Bulgaria
South Africa
Iran
Hungary
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Belgium
New Zealand
Israel
Indonesia
Slovakia
Portugal
Tokelau
Ireland
Chile
Mexico
South Korea
Serbia
Taiwan
Saudi Arabia
Greece
Malaysia
Estonia
Philippines

Note that the targeted audience as indicated by the flags on the right of the list is more of an art than a science, so please do not be insulted if my algorithm got it wrong. It's a combination of looking at the TLD and the declared language type being used on the page.

For example a site may have a flag for Spain if Spanish is used but no other specific variation or TLD is used, etc.

The most popular TLDs for bbPress forums are:

.com (by 50% !)
.org
.net
.ru
.uk
.de
.it
.info
.ca   (honourable mention as .ca has 50% less than .info
however pl, fr, nl, se and au all have over 100 sites)

We have a new leader Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine
beating out the old champion Simon & Schuster (international book publisher).
with nearly 1.8 MILLION posts. Absolutely incredible growth!

There are five bbPress powered forums with over a million posts now!

singletrackworld.com  http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/
simonandschuster.com  http://forums.simonandschuster.com/
wordpress.org         http://wordpress.org/support/
greedyorneedy.com     http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/
weddingbee.com        http://boards.weddingbee.com/

Nearly 300 more have over ten thousand posts,
and nearly 1,000 have over one thousand posts.

Over four dozen new bbPress powered forums are put online every week on average!

This will be the last look* at the incredible growth and diversity of
bbPress adoption around the world over the past several years.
You can see the previous summaries here via the Top100 tag.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

The list is based on post count which implies highest activity.
Sites that appear to fake the numbers or have dubious content
have been moved to the bottom of the Top 10,000

To see the complete Top 10,000 requires free registration/login:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top10000

Logged in users can also search the list and view the experimental
Tag Cloud http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top10000?cloud
and vote on sites that may have superior design even if they didn't
make the Top 100 regardless of their volume of activity.

This list does not include most of the 1000+ or so BuddyPress installations
that use bbPress to power sub-forums for their groups. This is for technical
reasons, not political - it's virtually impossible to analyze bbPress under
BuddyPress because of how it's filtered and blocked. If you have a large
bbPress installation under BuddyPress and you are not in the current list,
contact me for a way to be included if your site would fall in the top 1,000.

*The upcoming rewrite of bbPress will make this kind of third-party analysis
extremely difficult but also unneccesary since it will start to "phone home"
as part of WordPress to Automattic on a daily basis from your server
with all your details, configuration and install information anyway.

So on that note, let's take a look at the results from the final list!

Top 100 is enough for you? No need to register.

thankee kindly pagal.

Thanks in advance.

Here is the link to legacy download counter in case anyone wondering - http://bbpress.org/download/counter/legacy

bbPress 1.x has been downloaded over 121k times!

_ck_ plugins this weekend will break the 100k total downloads mark!

These are the top 10 _ck_ plugins:

bbPress Signatures
BBcode Lite
bbPress Smilies
Human Test
BBcode Buttons
bbPress Attachments
bbPress Polls
Hidden Forums
Post Count Plus
Topic Icons

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbshowcase-shut-down

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0
was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing
bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead
bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,
which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,
which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL
for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to
consider bbPress's lack of leadership before continuing to use it."

What gives?

congrats

That's over 300 per day.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100?add

It's getting harder and harder to find them all as there are so many themes and customizations being created, so feel free to submit any forum you know is powered by bbPress to help me.

I like how you replaced "sticky" with a nifty little icon.

Thanks! That was my first 'hack' for bbPress and I slapped this in my functions.php

// This sets sticky label as an image
remove_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'bb_sticky_label', 20);
function my_sticky_label( $label ) {
        global $topic;
        if (is_front()) {
                if ( '2' === $topic->topic_sticky ) {
                        return sprintf(__('<img src="/images/sticky.png" alt="[sticky]" /> %s'), $label);
                }
        } else {
                if ( '1' === $topic->topic_sticky || '2' === $topic->topic_sticky ) {
                        return sprintf(__('<img src="/images/sticky.png" alt="[sticky]" /> %s'), $label);
                }
        }
        return $label;
}
add_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'my_sticky_label', 20);

Let's just say I have a new found respect for Google - I think they must look at whois info for the domain owner registration. I don't quite have the resources to mimic that yet.

906 isn't too shabby considering how many sites there are now.
I like how you replaced "sticky" with a nifty little icon.

* PHP Popularity
5.2.x : 62%
5.1.x : 5%
4.4.x : 15%
4.3.x : 2%

* Server Popularity
Apache/2.x : 56%
Apache : 24% (unknown version)
Apache/1.3 : 11%
Microsoft-IIs : 3%
Litespeed : 1%
Lighttpd : 0.5%
Nginx : 0.5%

* bbPress Popularity
1.0a6 : 5%
1.0 ? : 5% (1.0 using pre-a6)
0.9.x : 52%
0.8.x : 35% (this is likely wrong, it includes 0.8 installs that upgraded to 0.9)