WordPress has a really nice authentication method: by user’s email. No password or registration. Is it possible to use similar authentication in bbpress?

Really, registration is unnecessary and creates a problem of spam nicknames cluttering the admin panel. Akismet deals with spam comments well.

Wouldn’t it make sense to switch to the wordpress-type authentication by poster’s email?

Please note that this is not the same as anonymous posting.

Additionally, bbpress really lacks wordpress’ moderation options. It would be surely a good idea to moderate all comments which contain links since almost all of them are spam comments which make it through Akismet.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

There has been some talk of this recently in the dev list. They were recently looking at using phpass as WordPress does, and I know they were also going to look into just how WordPress does registration as well.

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2007-December/thread.html