As OC2PS mentioned, that’s where you need to go to set up your avatar.
It’s free and is used by MANY other websites across the internet – so no only are you setting up you avatar her, but potentially a lot of other websites 
I’d say the whole new theming system (ability to register new themes via plugins etc), the new visual editor, and the new hooks available.
It’s hard because there were a lot of great bug fixes in the new release
If it is strictly a BuddyPress install you should first try to ask on the BP forums as OC2PS said.
If you are dealing with bbPress, just give us some more details and we will see what we can do
Are you installing bbPress 2.x?
You should install bbPress 2.x – (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/)
Step 2 – Go to Settings->Permalinks (no need to change the settings, just visiting the page will reset the peralinks)
Step 3 – Go to YourDomain.com/forums/ and you should see the forum index!
First, you need to reset your permalinks. To do this, just go to Setting->Permalinks. you dont need to do anything on the page – simply going to this page will do the job.
Secondly, after you do this, go to YourDomain.com/forums and see if they appear.
Hopefully step 3 is profit
That’s odd indeed.
The first thing I would try for debugging purposes is disabled ALL plugins except bbPress and see if there was one conflicting.
Trying that and see if by some chance that helps.
If you are using 2.1 and go to the Forums settings, you will see a dropdown that will have bbP Twenty Ten or bbP Theme Compat options to select.
Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.
Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).
bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.
It depends on what theme you are using.
Theme’s typically call and register sidebar’s differently, which is why it is easier to fix this on a theme level and not a plugin.
Find out how your theme is handling sidebars, write mini plugin or block in your functions.php that addresses the issue.
We’ve been down this road already 
No problem! That’s what we’re here for
If that’s the case it can’t *easily* be done (I’ve had a similar request for a client, so I looked into it).
I custom plugin could certainly accomplish this but it will take some elbow grease.
I understand for simplicity’s same you want to keep forum users on the front end, but there is no reason from a technical aspect why they can’t access the backed to edit their user profiles.
OC2PS – when are we going to start seeing some of these plugins you keep suggesting?
I don’t see the issue. The CSS is there.
ul.bbp-has-subforums ul.bbp-forums-list
You’re not going to be able to do what is on the ubi form without a custom theme, because of how it’s setup.
Look around in the markup. Perhaps you are expecting the sub-forum classes to be somewhere they aren’t.
I don’t have an answer for you. Are you using bbp-compat or TwentyTen bbPress theme (though that shouldn’t matter).
The fact is I’m running trunk and I see the classes in various places.
Install bbPress 2.0.2 (the plugin) – it will do all of this out of the box
You are in the right direction, the theme is just hijacking and overriding bbPress css, so you’re going to have to just tweak it.
If you are using bbPress 2.1 by chance, you can drop this into your theme’s functions.php and it should do what you want.
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );
function ja_return_blank() {
return '';
}
If we provided a configuration for every request received we would have 347374 configurations and be years from a future release.
Instead bbPress is built extremely flexible so *you* can do these things as you see fit.
Trunk is simply the latest development version of bbPress. So if jjj committed a patch last night, it’s not going to show up in the latest *stable* version – it will be in trunk.
You can download trunk via a zip file or through SVN – SVN is better because then you can easily sync it down the road.
Make sure you are grabbing the plugin trunk and not 1.x trunk.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
No its definitely still being rendered by the server and the browser, your browser just hides it. Ideally you’ll want to find a way to nuke the sidebar on bbPress pages, but you’ll have to poke around your theme to do that.
I’m using 2.1 truck and I get classes such as bbp-has-subforums and bbp-parent-forum-4.
Right now it has to be accomplished with various plugins and some trickery, but it’s on our radar for a future version. See #1805.
It’s complicated now, they way you have to use the plugins to tweak user permissions. I’ve never had good luck with that, so I can’t really be much help.
Hopefully in a future version this can be handled in bbPress itself, via #1805.
Not sure what version of bbPress you are on, but if some change you are trying out 2.1 I’d recommend looking at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/
