It also has broken links, and will not let any users (including me, the administrator) view or add topics! I’ve spend a whole night, the following day, and the better part of the following evening trying to set up this software. It doesn’t “just work”, it doesn’t work at all. This is horribly broken right out of the box.
This isn’t an issue of “options”. Being able to post in a forum, or to read existing topics, isn’t “optional” in a bb, it’s the very core of what a bb is supposed to do, and 24 hours after starting this process, including spenting 3 hours since my last post googling for an answer and searching this forum, I have not been able to enable that most crucial functionality. All the forum pages do is give a topic count, but the topics are hidden, can’t be read or added to. Not a single solution I have found in those 3 hours has fixed it.
A forum that even an administrator can’t view or post to is the very heighth of “doesn’t work”. Add the default broken breadcrumb links, and that brings bbpress down to less than zero stars. And I am done wasting my time. I’m not risking putting this in front of my users. No further responses are necessary, I’m not giving a single second more of my attention to this unusably broken time-wasting trash.
Thank you for the link to other alternatives.
Add me to the list of complainants. A whole night and a day setting this up, only to discover the the most fundamental features, allowing users to be able to read and add, is turned off, and I can’t get it turned on. I am administrator and the topics and add links are hidden even from me.
Two years and no solution, here or in any other link I could find on Google where this serious problem is mention. Lovely. Thanks!
