[Sam Bauers]

This would not impact anything other than bbPress, it’s just a question of choosing one methodology to support pretty URLs.

MultiViews could still be enabled on the server, it’s just a question of whether bbPress uses it or not.

Mod_Rewrite is better for a couple of reasons. For a start it is better supported, and it is also a lot more flexible. We are thinking about running all requests through a single page (index.php) just like WordPress. This is called a front controller, and is not as easily achieved with MultiViews.

There is also the desire to reduce the amount of support traffic around this topic and standardising on one approach may help that.