John, yes the HTML editor works extremely well as HTML editor, but the HTML editor works extremely badly as web editor for end users. If you had read my post, then you would have noticed that I already mentioned how the visual editor can be enabled. The point is that it is a extremely bad visual editor. Show me one successful social media site that doesn’t support the upload of media. The truth is that the end user interface of bbpress is extremely old fashioned and extremely outdated.
Another thing. A forum moderator should never ever patronize users and send them to Google.