[Nykess]

Is there a way to enable some sort of post preview before people submit their thread?

[Stephen Edgar]

No, by default bbPress does not have a ‘post preview’ feature at this stage.

There are various plugins for using different editors and some are compatible with bbPress and some have a post preview.

Take a look around https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and see if anything is suitable.

[Nykess]

Any recommendations from personal experience?

I’m surprised such a common feature was left out.