[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

these popped up in my alerts:

bbPress plugin project saw serious progress during Google Code-in

2011: A New Kind of Forum Software is Born

It’s a shame that topic split/merge had to wait until the plugin version to be done in the API and not in the previous few years for the standalone.

Neither of the writeups mention the impact of database queries and the size of the codebase so I will have to explore that next week. I suspect they are high. It’s easy to pile on features but hard to make them efficient.

ps. Gautam is only 15 ?! Wow, amazing work for such a young age.