Ashfame tracked down this post that mentions our fearless leader:
What is the future of bbPress? Through the grapevine, I’ve discovered that Sam Bauers no longer works for Automattic but he is still involved with the bbPress project. How much he is involved I don’t know. It’s interesting to me because I’ve always attributed bbPress as Sam’s project but in reality, Matt Mullenweg wrote bbPress in the time span of a weekend and then handed off the project to someone else to maintain.
So if Sam is not the lead project developer, who is?
http://www.wptavern.com/forum/bbpress/860-future-bbpress-undecided.html
The clincher is that Sam is no longer listed on the automattic team page (although earlier versions of that page on archive.org show him there) : http://automattic.com/about/
So for whatever reason, it sounds like Sam has possibly moved on professionally?
Sam, if that’s the case – I just want to thank you for all of your hard work! You’ve been a real gift to the bbPress community, and we greatly appreciate your hard work and dedication.
If that’s not the case, I hope you’re having a relaxing few weeks off. 
Thanks guys. Will try out the above and give you an update.
One has to manage it by getting page_topics from the meta table and then manipulate your php code.
@Kawauso
I think using $wpdb & $bbdb should sanitize by them self but reading the page on codex it looks like that we need to do that explicitly. I am a lil confused. Can you please clarify?
We have just finished the Romanian translation for version 1.0.2
Info in Romanian about the translation and how to install it can be found at: http://www.reflectionmedia.ro/2009/09/bbpress-in-limba-romana/
The actual translation files, both .po and .mo, can be found at: http://www.reflectionmedia.ro/download/bb102.zip
‘there was an error posting this topic’ error is showing when a topic gets posted. its integrated wpmu / buddypress / bbpress.
can someone help me out here with this, will highly appreciate it.
middlepath
Thanks ! I forgot that I should check out the codex for that.
ah.. found it page_topics under bb_meta
How can I get the value the user has set for pagination under the reading settings?
Ah ok, yah mini-stats is a great dashboard plugin which lets you know how many users you have… how many posts and topics they’re creating… and other key metrics like that.
I check it almost every day, and couldn’t run my sites without it… I find it to be one of the most useful plugins out there, if you’re managing a site for growth.
If you’re unsure of what PHPINFO is, put this into a file called info.php on your web server, then access it with a browser at http://www.example.com/info.php and paste the info somewhere where we can see it.
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
I think Sam doesn’t work for Automattic anymore. Check this link : http://www.wptavern.com/forum/bbpress/860-future-bbpress-undecided.html
Moreover he isn’t listed here too : http://automattic.com/about/
0.9 or 1.0 and what is the environment your server is on.
If you don’t know what that means just give us a PHPINFO.
If you are on a host with NFS (like dreamhost) bbPress and WordPress
(or anything relying on alot of files) will be slow.
johnhiler, I think that’s the plugin I meant to link to. I don’t even know what mini-stats does! (I see you rated the plugin; can you describe what it does?)
Thanks for posting the link to bb-benchmark.
Great advice from chrishajer!
The only thing I’d add is that this plugin can be helpful in counting your queries, and identifying which plugin is slowing your site down:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/
Good luck!
And a plugin or extension is probably not going to make your site any faster. There are no plugins I know of that will speed up bbPress. I think you first want to establish a baseline for the performance of the site, then you can fix the easy things first and move on from there.
I think you first need to determine how long bbPress is actually taking to generate a page, and how long it takes to generate the other pages on the site. You can start with _ck_’s mini-stats plugin for bbPress.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-stats/
[edit: see johnhiler’s link below to the bb-benchmark plugin]
And, on the other part of your site, what is running that? Is it WordPress or just static HTML? If it’s WordPress, you can get a plugin as well to point out performance bottlenecks.
Regardless of what type of software a site (your site) is running, there are lots of tools you can run in your browser to find performance bottlenecks.
Firefox (you need that to run most of these add-ons)
Firebug (all around awesome tool)
Y Slow from Yahoo!
Google Page Speed
There are tons and tons of performance add-ons for Firefox but these will get the job done.
Also, what host are you on, and can you post the URL here so others may see the performance first hand?
Has anybody found a solution to having a facebuddy-like theme for bbpress? Any help would be much appreciated!!!!
Any chance bbPress will get a codex proper then?
Is the site database-based or just HTML?
