[zaerl]

From the bbpress main page:

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean and ready to take on any job you throw at it. So let’s get started.

Plugins

1) bbPress has a lot of plugins that cover nearly every single feature that other bulletin board bloatware (phpbb, vbulletin) have

2) all those plugin are free as in “freedom” and “free beer”

so stop ranting cause you haven’t paid a penny.

[bbuser12345]

^ You are right to be hesitant.

I have had updates break a long relied upon plug-in. I am told not to worry because the functionality has been incorporated into the core software…well,.. it has been incorporated into the NEXT version… which may be called 1.03 or 1.1… which may or may not be released…and if it is it may or may not be a wordpress plug-in.

Ugh.

But once you adopt it you are stuck. There is no way for me to migrate out. So I am stuck without a key component of my board until….?????

[bbuser12345]

^ You are right to be hesitant.

I have had updates break a long relied upon plug-in. I am told not to worry because the functionality has been incorporated into the core software…well,.. it has been incorporated into the NEXT version… which may be called 1.03 or 1.1… which may or may not be released…and if it is it may or may not be a wordpress plug-in.

Ugh.

But once you adopt it you are stuck. There is no way for me to migrate out. So I am stuck without a key component of my board until….?????

[3sixty]

Hmm… What part of “social network” is bbpress not?

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network

[3sixty]

Hmm… What part of “social network” is bbpress not?

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network

[RandomGuySays]

Don’t get me wrong, I want to. bbPress looks wonderful, I love the simplicity and ease of use, as well as it’s integration features which are a huge plus to me. And while I acknowledge that bbPress is going through some tough times (being semi-new and through my understanding, the project lead leaving), I cannot choose bbPress for my site. The worst part about my specific situation is that I’ll most likely end up using it in the future once it’s matured, and knowing that is even more of a kick in the pants.

A lot of times with software, the more simple it is to use, the less features it has to be used. However, bbPress lacks basic bulletin board features – like poll creation, simple appearance settings such as customizing visible forum structures, and even a pre-made registration EULA. Other bulletin boards include prepared terms and conditions to protect your site, bbPress simply asks for your e-mail which with the lack of spam prevention filters like Captchas, even with the right plugin becomes an open door towards floods of spam. Other bulletin boards also give you the ability to, for instance, change the number of how many subforums are visible: Say you have a video game forum, organized as follows: Games (Category), Console/PC (Forums), Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo (Subforums), Xbox/Xbox 360 (Sub-subforums), Hardware/Accessories (etc.). On most forum software, the appearance settings default to showing one set of subforums per-page – e.g. when you click, ‘Console Games’, the next page displays only, ‘Microsoft/Sony/ Nintendo’, and you go from there. bbPress however, defaults to listing them all at once, resulting in enormously long forum pages that can only be changed by editing code. This may not be a problem for a lot of people as it should only require changing one or two lines to fix, but as a basic feature found in most other bulletin boards, to expect people to know how bbPress’ code works would just be wrong, and as such becomes a huge turn off.

In my opinion, one of the biggest bottlenecks and double-edged swords of open source software such as WordPress, bbPress, and even other open source forums, are the plugins. I remember reading a blog discussing the state of bbPress where the poster used the phrase, ‘there’s a plugin for that’. Plugins can be great, but they should also be considered an added bonus and not relied on for basic features. Most plugins are created by a third party, or even people like us. Just for talk sake, lets use wp-united for example. Wp-united is a plugin that links accounts between WordPress and phpbb so people can use their account from one, with the other. Say I used WordPress with phpbb, and then used wp-united to link the two. One day the wp-united team ceases support, and their latest version is incompatible with the new phpbb/WordPress. Now what happens to the huge install base I’ve developed? Do new users now have to register twice? Is my database going to be completely screwed up? bbPress eliminates this problem by having seemless integration with WordPress, but it just shows an example of how plugins can be both a good and bad thing, and how some features (like poll creation) need to be made a part of the main software despite, ‘less code being more’.

And lastly, arguably the number one issue preventing me from using bbPress, is the state of bbPress itself; the development of this software is up in the air with there being two completely different places to discuss it’s progress (this being one of them), and the other claiming talks of turning bbPress into a BuddyPress plugin. So the people new to bbPress, such as myself, don’t know what to do. Should we install the software now? Or wait until it’s a plugin? If we install now and they change it to a plugin, what happens to the standalone installations? Do they get screwed? Are they forced to install BuddyPress and switch everything over? Now I’m only human. I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong, I make mistakes. But even if not all my facts are straight, the fact that doing the research lead to this whole scenario makes for quite the first impression.

I didn’t post this to bash bbPress, I just hoped it would clear some of the confusion and thought it might in some way shape or form help bbPress and it’s users by getting these issues out in the open.

[mr_pelle]

bbPress is not a social network, so… no, I’m sorry.

[mr_pelle]

bbPress is not a social network, so… no, I’m sorry.

[anabecse]

I have installed a fresh copy of bbpress onto my server. Everything works except 1 thing.

On the start page there is a spot that says “Topic — Add New »”

When clicked this is the message I always get.

403 Forbidden

Access to this resource on the server is denied!

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Powered By LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Technologies is not responsible for administration and contents of this web site!

How do I make it so it takes the user to a login or register an account screen.

I can provide my url if requested but I am not sure of the rules so I didn’t include url.

Also don’t want my url cached hehe!

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

[3sixty]

Is there any way to follow or friend other users in bbPress?

[Gautam Gupta]

Hello folks,

I’ve ported the famous Mystique theme for WordPress over to bbPress and it can be downloaded from here.

For the time being, there is no settings page – I’ll add one soon. Till then, you can edit the file settings.php located in the lib folder of the theme (from lines 11 to 20) for some basic settings.

Requirements: bbPress 1.0+ (works best with bbPress 1.1+ – it hasn’t been released yet)

Screenshot: http://gaut.am/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/bb-mystique-full.png

Announcement on my blog: http://s.gaut.am/1f

[OreilleMalade]

I just checked and… this is exactly the one I’m already using (Google Sitemaps Version 0.1 | by Olaf Lederer)

bbPress Sitemap Generator (0.6.1) Author: Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit is no good ?

[DKB]

http://www.finalwebsites.com/bbpress/google-sitemap.php

is the better one

[Submachiner]

We got the issue sorted out. The admin is running a older version (0.9.0.2) of bbpress and the plugin only works for 1.0 and above. Mods can lock this thread.

[Submachiner]

We got the issue sorted out. The admin is running a older version (0.9.0.2) of bbpress and the plugin only works for 1.0 and above. Mods can lock this thread.

[OreilleMalade]

Hi !

Any idea ?

Shall I try to install bbPress Sitemap Generator (0.6.1) Author: Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit ?

Or this one ? :

http://www.finalwebsites.com/bbpress/google-sitemap.php

Is there another sitemap plugin for bbpress 1.0.2 ?

Regards

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thi is a unique theme. It has not been released.

It’s not overly hard to replicate from code on this forum.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thi is a unique theme. It has not been released.

It’s not overly hard to replicate from code on this forum.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m sorry to say that this is a buddyPress issue.

Buddy press is not bbpress compatible, and it’s forum plugin isn’t this version of bbpress, but they call it that for some unknown reason. It causes so much confusion.

I’m sorry to say, but if you use or have used BuddyPress. There’d nothing we can do to help.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m sorry to say that this is a buddyPress issue.

Buddy press is not bbpress compatible, and it’s forum plugin isn’t this version of bbpress, but they call it that for some unknown reason. It causes so much confusion.

I’m sorry to say, but if you use or have used BuddyPress. There’d nothing we can do to help.

[Jodie Burdette]

Ok I got the installer to appear by dropping all bb_ tables in my database.

Now I have a whole new problem. I have run the installer but for some reason in step 3 the location is coming up wrong. It showing: http://www.wvk9sar.org/newsite/plugins/buddypress/……

I changed it to http://www.wvk9sar.org/wall but it still says it installed it in the wrong location.

I have no idea why it is doing this. I deleted all bb_tables again and am ready to attempt the install again but I need to know where it is pulling this non-existent location from.

I don’t know if it matters but the location http://www.wvk9sar.org/newsite was the location I build the site in and then I moved it to the main domain. I did originally install buddypress while it was in the newsite location but I deleted that plugin and all tables before trying to install bbpress.

It would be nice if it were clearer what buddypress includes and does not include as I thought the forum component was part of that plugin.

Please please help!

[Jodie Burdette]

Ok I got the installer to appear by dropping all bb_ tables in my database.

Now I have a whole new problem. I have run the installer but for some reason in step 3 the location is coming up wrong. It showing: http://www.wvk9sar.org/newsite/plugins/buddypress/……

I changed it to http://www.wvk9sar.org/wall but it still says it installed it in the wrong location.

I have no idea why it is doing this. I deleted all bb_tables again and am ready to attempt the install again but I need to know where it is pulling this non-existent location from.

I don’t know if it matters but the location http://www.wvk9sar.org/newsite was the location I build the site in and then I moved it to the main domain. I did originally install buddypress while it was in the newsite location but I deleted that plugin and all tables before trying to install bbpress.

It would be nice if it were clearer what buddypress includes and does not include as I thought the forum component was part of that plugin.

Please please help!

[Jodie Burdette]

Please someone give me some advise. When I go to the URL where I uploaded bbpress I do not get any sort of installer. I get a page called Forums.

I did have buddypress installed before but I deactived and deleted it to see if that would get rid of the problem but it did not.

Do I need to do something else before I can install bbpress?

Please someone help me out.

[Jodie Burdette]

Please someone give me some advise. When I go to the URL where I uploaded bbpress I do not get any sort of installer. I get a page called Forums.

I did have buddypress installed before but I deactived and deleted it to see if that would get rid of the problem but it did not.

Do I need to do something else before I can install bbpress?

Please someone help me out.

[TheNet]

Tweaks for the plugin repo?

Also the question remains, What difference does it make to have WordPress integrated?