In reply to Justin.

I've been dissing bbPress for a long time. I've never gone through the process of installing and using the darn thing because in a real world situation, I'd never choose bbPress to power my community, especially when there are dedicated forum solutions that are in another league. So that's why I decided to sit down and write this post, to chronicle my experience as a first time user.

The nomenclature may not be new, but it's new to me. After using phpbb2 for a few years and then vBulletin, that software doesn't use those terms. They use threads, replies, categories, but not Topics and Voices.

I'm willing to give your plugin a shot. It probably won't have what I want out of the box to which you'll tell me there's plugins for that. If I had a dollar for every time someone said "there are plugins available that do that". Great, but I want it all in one solution, not a core with 20 or more plugins, not to mention these are WordPress plugins now.