It strikes me as a really useful feature to have for forums, yet it doesn’t seem to be included by default for the forum post type. Is there any particular reason for this?

[John James JacobyKeymaster @johnjamesjacoby 1 year, 10 months ago]

No reason other than wanting to nail down the root functionality of the forums themselves first. There are lots of little WP do-dads that we can take advantage of, and pingbacks will likely be on the list for 2.1.

[Erlend Sogge HeggenParticipant @sadr 1 year, 10 months ago]

Great, thanks for letting me know. So there is no speed arguments, e.g. a site with 1’000’000 posts could get bogged down if it has thousands of incoming links?

p.s. sorry for repeatedly posting in ‘Installation’, I just don’t take notice of it very easily.

[John James JacobyKeymaster @johnjamesjacoby 1 year, 10 months ago]

It wouldn’t be anymore bogged down than a site with 1 million blog posts, which is to say that once you have that kind of traffic and data store, you are probably backed by the proper hardware to handle it.