Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book
bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.
that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )
topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen
jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.
Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha
Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.
im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes
As for examples
Just any thing that looks like a forum:
bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.
which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.
if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.
All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.
forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.
category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.
ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.
and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/