[Jeff McNeill]

Here are the full errors I received

FILE: /home/classics/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/functions.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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1380 | ERROR | The function hash_equals is not present in PHP version 5.5 or earlier
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FILE: /home/classics/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php
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FOUND 2 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 3 LINES
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1149 | ERROR | preg_replace() – /e modifier is deprecated since PHP 5.5
1150 | ERROR | preg_replace() – /e modifier is deprecated since PHP 5.5
1386 | WARNING | The use of function split is discouraged from PHP version 5.3; use preg_split instead
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FILE: /home/classics/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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310 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode’ is deprecated from PHP 5.3 and forbidden from PHP 5.4.
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[Jeff McNeill]

I have this same concern. I have to upgrade to PhP 5.5 (and frankly, 5.6 is out of support by Jan 01, 2017, so this is an old issue). Can bbPress be updated to work under PhP 5.5, or at least not throw an error?

[Jeff McNeill]

Hahaha tags “sleeping pill store” tag should be a signal that someone is asleep at the tiller. Really folks, this place is asleep, and all Robin W. does is state that it is free software and you should be durned grateful, and not try and wake anybody up.

Development is tediously slow, regardless of some $50k that was raised a few years ago. 2.6 should supposedly fix the issue with not being able to replace posts with forum discussions. Surely that is also why the plugin that actual does that hasn’t been updated in two years. And 2.6 was 4 months late in May 2014. So when will it ever be released?

This is simply too long! Obviously this project is coasting on the coattails of integration (and requirement of use) in BuddyPress and that it is an anointed project of WordPress.org. Anything less would have near zero users already.

So much functionality is needed to be reasonable. There appears to be a single active developer committing to the code: https://www.openhub.net/p/bbpress/commits/summary

But really, this was a complaint over a year and a half ago, and it ain’t changed. Very sad as the potential is quite big. How else do you explain 16,000+ downloads of that plugin that has been abandoned: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/