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I think it would be best to remove the admin bar. I don’t think it serves a purpose, since we don’t have access to anything from within the admin panel.
Perhaps it should be named “Blog post discussions”.
It’s unclear what tools we have available for styling our posts. I took a potshot guess that since it’s bbPress, that we could use an
tag and it worked, but if I didn’t know how bbPress worked, I wouldn’t have known to try that.
Oh, and by allowing direct hotlinking of images here, you are allowing us to run statistics tracking on the forum. I’m not doing that, but if you hadn’t thought of it, then it’s a good thing to know. It’s generally better to copy the images to your own server and serve from there.
You can also run into weird problems with people linking objectionable material in the forum. For example, I put an image in a post a few minutes ago, but I could easily set it to display as something normal for the USA, but switch the image out for the rest of the world and instead display an advertisement or some other objectionable image and you wouldn’t know about it unless someone mentioned it to you.
There is no link in the site menu to the forums. I think that’ll be needed for those who don’t know what the URL is, or that these even exist.
Redirecting /forum/ and /discussion/ to /forums/ is probably a good idea too, for anyone who tries to navigate here directly.
I also think you should ditch the “Your reply is awaiting moderation” message. If spam is a problem, then there are less invasive methods of handling that.
I wouldn’t have even thought it was necessary at this point. Forums tend to attract spam later, not when they’re brand new.
An unread posts widget would be useful. I’m not sure there’s a suitable one for bbPress or not; they tend to be resource intensive unless coded well.
I like that there’s only a small number of forums here. People tend to crazy and it becomes a mess with just a bunch of dead forums.
