There’s some useful tips here!
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/create-multiple-forums
Definitely backup all your data before playing around… it should be pretty safe to have multiple installs use the same user table.
If you hit a snag, post and let us know and I’ll see if I can help. I integrated multiple bbpress installs of 0.9 not 1.0, but if it’s not too different maybe I can help. I’ve got almost 10 bbPress installs working together with a single users database, so there’s definitely a path!
All the Cross Cookie plugin does is automatically sign you into multiple domains with a single login.
If you just want to have all your bbPress installs share a single user table, you should be able to do that in any version of bbPress!
Not sure on the connection to wpmu…
If you integrate all the bbPress installs to use the same users table, then you can let your users sign in even if your bbPress installs are on separate domains… if you use ck’s awesome “Cross Cookie” plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/cross-cookie/
It only works in bbPress 0.9 though…
Which read-only forum plugin are you using? And which version of bbPress are you on?
Are you trying to install bbPress as a plugin in WPMU?
It’s a separate program… you have to install it separately.
Something like this:
<div class=”commentcount”><?php $commentcount = $topic->topic_posts -1; echo ($commentcount) ?> <img alt=”number of comments” src=”/images/sticky-bubble.gif” /></div>
One quick note: posts include the “first post”, i.e. the original topic. If you want to only show comments on that first post, you have to subtract one from the post count.
You could check if they left any comments? If you’re integrated with WordPress though, you’ll also want to check if they left comments there too!
This plugin seems to have some compatibility issues, but might be worth checking out:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/live-comment-preview/
As an fyi, plugins are generally made by users and aren’t necessarily supposed to work with version 1.0.1; they work with whatever version each developer has tested the plugin on. In most cases, that’s version 0.9.
Right now, very few plugins are officially compatible (i.e. tested) with version 1.0 and 1.0.1. But a number of them are unofficially compatible – they worked on 0.9 and still work (inadvertently) on 1.0.
Good luck!
Something similar was reported here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-new-goes-to-404-for-logged-out-users
These issues are usually the result of a messed up htaccess file… or you could try the template hack that the previous person reported.
If the comment counts are off, try running a recount?
Also… try activating the default Kakumei theme and see if the post form appears (and the freshness works properly). If so, the issue may be with your theme…
Akismet looks at a number of factors – ranging from email addresses to IPs and the texts of posts.
_ck_ also suggested not trying to test Akismet with spammy comments:
I don’t recommend trying to purposely cause spam to test it because akismet might flag you globally as a spammer and you’ll end up being bozo’ed across multiple forums/blogs.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-your-posters-see-when-their-posts-as-flagged-by-akismet#post-31467
I’ve marked a few posts as spam on my forum, and noticed that every subsequent comment by that user got flagged by Akismet. Your mileage may vary… but you’re welcome to take your chances. 
If you’re not getting spam, then you don’t have to worry too much if it’s working or not!
What I usually do on a new install is set it up with Akismet and then wait a week or so… for it to catch its first piece of spam!
Definitely do not try and “test” Akismet, as you don’t want to get blacklisted from all sites that use Akismet!
What versions of bbPress and WordPress MU are you using?
@lifestrikes – Is it possible that your browser is caching the old admin CSS?
It’s not a good idea to try and test Akismet by posting fake spam… if Akismet decides you’re a spammer, then you could have all of your future valid comments blocked too!
How do you know your Akismet isn’t working?
It’s possible to use it to power Classifieds like so (this is done with bbPress plus an adapted version of the Support Forum plugin together with the My Views plugins):
http://classifieds.weddingbee.com
However, as far as I know… it’s not currently easy to add all that meta info for each item – i.e. edition name, price, condition, etc. It’d be fairly straightforward to program a plugin to pull that off though! But it’s not currently available, as far as I’m aware…
What version of bbPress are you on?
Sure start with kakumei, then copy the 1col_fixed files over the kakumei files… and see if that looks ok. If so, go from there!
Do you have a /my-templates/ folder? More info here!
https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/
That 1col_fixed theme only has front-page.php, header.php, footer.php, and a few other miscellaenous files.
If bbPress can’t find a particular template file, it will pull the ones from the default theme, Kakumei (stored in /bb-templates/kakumei )
More here: https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/
I would copy the missing files from kakumei over to your 1col_fixed theme, and then you can edit them right there. Good luck!
Did you put your TOS text in the “terms-of-service.html” file in the plugin folder?
