Are you using BuddyPress or just bbPress?
It should work but historically GoDaddy is not a great host for WordPress sites in general due to speed issues, so I’d use a different one.
https://wordpress.org/hosting/
Personally I’ve always had good luck with HostGator.
You can look into something like http://pippinsplugins.com/mark-as-read-for-wordpress/ however it will require some moderate tweaks to work with bbPress I believe.
You can look into something like http://pippinsplugins.com/mark-as-read-for-wordpress/ however it will require some moderate tweaks to work with bbPress I believe.
I haven’t experienced these bugs first hand, but my suggestion would be to try 2.1 when the beta comes out (very soon) and see if these issues resolve themselves 
What version are you using?
I’ll let jjj know.
In the mean time, if you are looking for 2.x plugins you should be looking on WP.org.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress
You should be able to login here https://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin/ with your bbPress username/pass.
Then just head to pages.
Yep! Anyone can login and edit that page or contribute to other pages on the codex
This list needs to be updated, but some are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/showcase/
You will need to do some custom development on your end. This isn’t implemented in core (at least not yet) because at the moment each theme/framework handles their layout options differently – so there is no easy way to cover them all.
You can probably use the code in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ as an example.
Basically you will want to check for is_bbpress() and if that comes back true then run your code that forces the full width layout.
I hear you. I often forget that everyone else isn’t using 2.1. It will be out soon though and then we will start work on 2.2
bbPress is going to handle all of this fully in core soon (likely in 2.2).
Check out https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1694 for more details.
+1 looks great, I’ll check it out.
Not at the moment but post counts will probably make an appearance in 2.2.
I don’t have any experience with s2member or for using forums that are that in depth (cat > subcat > forum > subform ) so I can’t really say the best route to go.
For something like this, have you considered using BuddyPress?
That would allow you to setup different groups (which have forums within them) and configure different permissions to each one, etc.
Correct, with bbPress 2.1 the “Theme compat” bbPress theme will work for most people out of the box.
The problem is that some WordPress themes do weird things – such as modify the loop and/or query (things that are not normal) – and this causes bbPress to break.
I completely agree things could be improved.
I’m just not sure how much of that is on bbPress and how much of that is on Akismet.
On bbPress.org one of the major problems we run into is the majority of the spam is from human spammers – so no matter what reCaptcha/human test (etc) is in place they will get around this.
Some of the plugins (such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) try to get around this where a user must have a previously approved post before their posts show up.
It’s likely your theme that is screwing things up.
Temporarily switch you theme to TwentyTen/Eleven and see if that fixes it. If it does then your theme is doing some odd stuff behind the scenes that is screwing with bbPress.
I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.
For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/
Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.
You need to adjust the width of parts of the table.
.bbp-reply-author { width: 20% }
is a start.
bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.
The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because
1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment
2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet
Hope that helps
As a moderator here (and this runs pre 2.x bbPress) there is a *lot* of spam that gets through. Every morning I go through and delete everything that has popped up over night 
