bbPress doesn’t put posts in pending status, for any reason.
Does this problem happen for all forums? Group forums? Can you narrow the issue down to something smaller and reproducible?
You’ll have more luck asking over at buddypress.org.
Access log isn’t very helpful here. The error log will be, as well as any information you can provide on the memory monitoring side. What function causes the spike, etc…
You’re welcome. I tried to clear it up a bit, and you’re right that it’s still a weird experience. If you have improvements, I’d love to see them.
“Restart” is what’s causing the problem, since it literally restarts the import from 0. Don’t tick that box, and it should continue where it left off.
Visit your permalinks page, and save them.
If the theme is all you’re worried about, don’t use bbPress 1.x. It’s outdated and no longer under active development, so you’re investing in a dead-end. bbPress 2.1 can be themed to look like anything you want it to later; you’re better off starting clean with the newer engine than trying to fix up the old one because you like the paint. 
xmasons: Fixed. I incorrectly unbumped the version back to 2.0.
Anyone having issues with 2.0.3 should try bbPress 2.1 RC2.
Did you create any forums?
It’s possible, but I don’t see why you’d want to run bbPress 2.x and bbPress 1.x side-by-side if you didn’t have to (like BuddyPress users currently need to do.)
It’s much easier to do this with bbPress 2.x, and WordPress multisite. Just create a new site, and activate bbPress on it, too. Boom; two forums.
The lesson you’ve learned is more important than any answer you will get…
Don’t modify core files.
You’ll want to delete the bbPress directory completely, and replace it with a new installation.
Best changelog I have is in our trac. It outlines every ticket and code change since 2.0 was released.
Thanks for your offer to help. What do you want to do? You can basically write your own ticket. If you’re familiar with IRC, you can join #bbpress on freenode; many of us idle there together to chat about what we’re working on.
User profiles are always public, and no – you cannot edit a profile that is not yours unless you are a keymaster.
If it was a security hole (which it’s not) posting about it in a public forum is a no-no.
The “…This is how your profile…” string is part of bbPress 1.1, and not part of 2.0, but I see you’re using 2.0 on your site.
All of this, makes me confused.
What version of bbPress are you using? I think this issue is already fixed in 2.1 beta 1.
Also, thanks for the kind words.
Yeah; the way WordPress handles archives automatically for us makes it a bit strange to figure out at first. Once you get it, it makes perfect sense though.
Any suggestions on how to better label the fields that would have made it easier to understand?
Can’t speak for the others; if scalability into the billions of posts is really your concern: at volume, the platform matters significantly less than the operators and system administrators keeping up with the growth. Most of your static content will be served directly from the cache, and there’s not much you can do about database writes; they have to happen anyways.
If what you’re looking for is for someone to tell you that bbPress will out-perform some other platform is some specific way, I think you’re on your own. What I can tell you is that bbPress very much is in active development, and is optimized to use all of WordPress’s cacheing API’s, with constant efforts specifically going into further optimization in future versions.
Do not modify the core files that are included with bbPress.
Easiest way is to use the shortcode, and use CSS to hide the bits you don’t want.
If this isn’t satisfactory, you’ll need to make custom template parts to override the output.
You figuring it out doesn’t usually involve others handing you an answer. 
I think you might be over-thinking things. Rather than trying to overload the WordPress template loader with a new archive-forum.php and trying to run something through a shortcode, why not just use a WordPress page, set the slug to /forums, and put the shortcodes and div’s in there instead?
Topic views are specific ways to group topics together based on any criteria. bbPress comes with 1 view: Topics with no replies. Developers are free to extend the views in bbPress, much like we have here at bbPress.org with the support plugin.
Looks like she doesn’t have the proper capabilities.
* Is she marked as a spammer?
* Is this a multisite installation of WordPress?
* If so, is she a user of that site, or do you have those forums set to be global?
When you start storing that much data, it becomes less about volume and more about server setup and performance. MySQL databases can hold billions or records efficiently, WordPress can read and write to that database easily, too. What will matter is how you spread the pain of your traffic and volume around.
Don’t sob quietly if something is broken! If you find a bug, proclaim from the hilltops so it gets fixed!
I need more specific information to be helpful. Also, the visual editor isn’t built into the template files, so they should not directly be the cause.
I run bbPress 2.1 at testbp.org with the visual editor on; so something else must be up.
Sounds like you’re only overwriting files, and not deleting the directory. Delete the entire /bbpress folder and replace it with the one from Beta 1. Should be good to go from there.
