Your bbpress should have an rss feed. You can turn any rss feed into a widget that you can put on any site… here’s one example:
http://www.technobuzz.net/convert-rss-feed-into-a-widget-with-feedflash/
If your primary concern is sending emails to newly registered users, you may want to check out this plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/
This came up once before here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/install-issue-fatal-error-line-72
Is it possible you attempted to install bbPress as a plugin inside of your WordPress install?
It’s a separate program and should be installed separately…
_ck_ prepared a list of the top 100 sites here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-april-2009-update
The largest site has 1.6mm posts; the site with the most users is wordpress.org, which has 7.5 million users.
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100
Hope that helps!
Try the instructions here?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
WordPress 2.7 uses a different type of cookie, so you can either downgrade the WordPress cookie (using SuperAnn’s plugin) or upgrade the bbPress 0.9 cookie (using _ck_’s plugin). Both are linked from the instructions!
What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
Also, what did you do to “make it where members of my site could use 1 account for both instead of separate ones”… was there a specific set of integration instructions you followed? If so, please post a link to that too!
I think the latest .9 version is 0.9.0.4?
https://trac.bbpress.org/report/2
The only list of function names that I know of was pulled together by _ck_:
http://bbshowcase.org/reference/
@Michael3185 – Personally I wouldn’t trust a top-down authority to validate plugins. But some sort of bottoms up thing, I could get behind.
But if you want to take the lead on it, you could draft a proposal and post it in a new thread! Maybe some other users would be into it. 
Is there a particular time of day or night that this bug tends to pop up? If so, maybe we can narrow it down enough to get a clue to what’s causing it…
Yah plugins aren’t at the plug and play point yet, sadly.
Slapping a name like “bbPress Certified” on it is begging for legal problems. But it might be neat to have a system where individual users could say, “Works For Me” and list their version number. If I saw that five people with 0.9.0.4 had installed a plugin I was looking at, that would give me a lot of comfort (and avoid the legal and logistical problems of having Automattic review each plugin).
In a similar vein, it’d be great if there were a way for a site mod to put some kind of warning on exploited plugins. It really pains me is that plugins with widely reported security problems don’t have a warning on them:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/security-warning-stop-using-private-messaging-plugin
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-messages/
That said, NightGunner5 wrote a great substitute plugin without the security hole… and it’s quickly become more popular. So maybe the issue is less urgent than I had thought…
Yah, chrishajer nailed it!
One of the weirdest adjustments for me using bbPress was figuring out the difference between posts and topics:
* A topic is what bbPress calls the entire thread/discussion.
* A post is what bbPress calls each individual piece of content in the topic – whether it be the first post creating the thread, or a comment on it.
So for example, a newly created thread would count as one topic and one post. If someone comments on it, then it becomes one topic with two posts.
If you ever want to calculate the number of comments per topic, you have to subtract out the first post from the number of posts. So for example, suppose a thread/topic had 12 posts. That actually means that it has one post that started it off, and 11 comments.
At least, that’s how I parse all of this! Good luck with the translations!
Trying to grok the vision here… bbPress would have a top-down certification model, where someone would audit the code of all plugins and do testing to certify that the plugins work in various bbPress versions?
@Michael3185 – sambauers (see above) is one of the main authors of bbPress.
I’m sure there will be a lot of optimization as 1.0 gets closer to release…
Ah we’ve had people report the “39 year” problem before in other contexts:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1970-issue
That time, it was resolved by changing something in the template… maybe it’s something similar?
ps If not, is this the plugin you’re to display Last Activity and Total Time Online? Any clues on how you’ve configured it would be helpful in digging into the issue!
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/members-online/
Wow nicely done johnjamesjacoby!!
Chrishajer, I think this is the ticket if you’re still interested:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1096
Is Approve User Registration the plugin giving you trouble?
I noticed it’s only listed as compatible up to 0.9.0.2:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
What version of bbPress are you using?
What plugins do you have installed?
Great points, timskii!
One note – it’s now possible to integrate bbPress v.9 with the latest versions of WordPress, using either of the plugins here:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
I share your concerns about bbPress becoming bloated. 
I hope the platform doesn’t go down that path… that would be the main thing that would eventually drive me off of bbPress.
Ah those two versions of bbPress and WordPress are not cookie compatible, without some extra plugins. Either of these two should work – one upgrades your bbPress cookie, and the other one downgrades your WordPress cookie.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
Sometimes bbPress will lose keymaster access during reverse integration – try this to fix that:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
And what techniques/plugins did you use to integrate the signins?
I think it takes some time for the moderators to review submissions manually…
I’m not sure either. But the stylesheet is showing up now! The design is a bit more narrow than the one on bbpress, but hopefully that’s a change you made!
