One feature that I struggle a bit in why bbPress broke from the norm is Freshness. It is customary to have the last column for “Last post” which includes the date-time of last post (topic/reply) and the author of last post.

bbPress has decided to use “Freshness” instead of “Last post” as title. Instead of date-time, it displays time-since. Is there an easy way to change this?

[@jaredatch Member 13 years ago]

Right now there are no filters in place so without creating a new theme there isn’t much you can do.

However, if you DID create a new theme, you could change “Freshness” to whatever you want.

For what it’s worth I agree with you – IMO there should eventually be a filter in place where you can chance that without having to create a new theme

[@sooskriszta Participant 13 years ago]

That’s good to know Jared.

What do you think of the 2-3 other items I’ve mentioned in my long rant at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-toastnotice#post-101301

[@sooskriszta Participant 12 years, 4 months ago]

Created ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

JJJ says no need yet, but will consider if it is a popular request.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

@sooskriszta Well you asked for it, so I have just written a plugin that gives date and time instead of freshness.
It will be uploaded to wordpress plugins in the next few days, but you can download immediately from

bbp last post plugin

Any feedback appreciated !