[chrishajer]

You might want to start a new topic for that new topic, now that you have the subforums thing sorted.

You situation sounds like this one from a while ago

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this

I am not sure what the best way to do it is. Did you try making the forums and subforums all in one forum installation, and see what the actual loading time is? That would be easiest for user login integration I think.

Can you imagine updating 50 forum installations?