[chrishajer]

In defense of bbPress, I think they went without search for a long time intentionally. It was not even included in the stock template until recently. The intention was that you could use tags to find specific content, click a member’s name to get all the replies they made and topics they started, etc.

For topics with no replies, there is a default view for that (look at the home page of this forum, near the bottom, to see it.) For other views, you probably want the My Views plugin by _ck_.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(look at the bottom right for all the views)