[Sam Bauers]

The “example.org/forum-slug/topic-slug” type chaining is not on the cards, nor is completely removing “forum” or “topic” identifiers.

If anything, I think it dilutes SEO value to shove the forum slug into every single topic and it also causes problems for permalinks if the topic is moved between forums. Not to mention the fact that it can make topic URLs quite long.

Those two plugins that chrishajer has linked to will probably be incompatible with 1.0 alpha 7.