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.
The .pot file needs to be updated. I’ll make sure it’s done in 2.1 by the time it’s released.
Don’t delete anything from the bbPress plugin folder.
Chances are you have a /css/bbpress.css file in your theme. It will now act as the full bbPress theme stylesheet, rather than pulling in two separate files.
endearndrew – can you drop a note in the 2.1 topic that this is resolved, and anywhere else you brought it up? Thanks.
Search for bbp_show_lead_topic. This has been answered here several times before.
Marco – thanks for the feedback. No reason to double post this. Trac is plenty fine.
Not the same issue at all. Also looks like you fixed it.
Not the same issue at all. Also looks like you fixed it.
It’s a bug. Will look into it.
Look harder. Plenty of examples in the forums here and the codex.
What your site looks like is not the intention. Your theme is not compatible with bbPress, since it’s doing something o override the WordPress template loader.
Way is suggested above deletes all revisions, even for your blog posts. Easier to modify the theme to not include them.
I see no pagination on your links above.
Not experiencing any of these issues on several installations. Can you please try your updates again? If you have anymore feedback other than ‘it broke’ would also be great.
Update to bbPress 2.0.3; should work just fine.
Try visiting your permalinks page, and saving them. Sometimes they need a refresh after bbPress is installed.
Tried registering, and it does redirect me to some other weird site (which I assume is the main one on the network.)
I bet it’s WordPress redirecting, since it expects the root site to manage all sign-ups. Could probably use some help figuring this out and fixing, since you have an installation exhibiting the issue already. 
If you’re using the bbPress plugin for WordPress, it will put its data in the same database tables as your WordPress installation.
There is an “uninstaller” in development, but I suspect most people won’t ever want to completely destroy all of their data.
The only security concerns would be the ones you create, like allowing them to be Editors or Admins. The default user role prevents Subscribers from doing anything malicious.
Shortcodes are explicitly prevented from working inside of bbPress.
The reason is because Shortcodes do not care who uses them in what context. If you enable them, all shortcodes will work for all users. This allows all of the bbPress shortcodes to work, inside of bbPress, which enables normal users to embed forums inside of topics and replies. No good.
You’re on your own if you want to go down this road, but I wouldn’t suggest it. Shortcodes are transparent, and a poor experience for most users (since they are completely invisible in the UI.)
Instead, I’d recommend building something for bbPress 2.1 (still in development) and write a plugin to tap into the power of TinyMCE.
Clearly links that don’t function isn’t normal; if everyone had this issue, 200k other bbPress users wouldn’t be using bbPress. Sorry if bbPress didn’t do what you expected, but it’s working great for many others.
Overall, it sounds like your theme is the culprit, and that you don’t like the way it looks. That’s a design decision; one that you will need to solve on your own if you don’t like the default styling.
bbPress has never tried to be exactly like “all the other forum software.” The philosophy is to be the smallest and simplest to use, and I think it accomplishes that pretty well inside of WordPress. If it’s missing things you wanted or expected, you are free to build those things yourself.
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks. Nacin’s looking into it. Someone will report back soon.
WordPress runs post slugs through a sanitization filter to make sure there are no collisions. As such, no two slugs can be the same, regardless of the type of content that it is.
