[johnhiler]

One user did this with a core hack:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-slugs-modification-removing-forum

Here’s a plugin based approach that got good reviews:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done

More on that here!

http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/

Good luck!

John