In reply to John James Jacoby.

Thanks for chiming in John. What you say about BuddyPress being more toolkit than turnkey is very true, and I'm the one at fault for thinking BuddyPress was more than what it said on the tin. I figured since WordPress enabled me to build a pretty website all by myself, BuddyPress would enable me to build a community site all by myself. For this same reason though, I've always felt that BuddyPress would be better off "sold as individual parts", but I won't keep beating that dead horse now that I don't even have a horse in the race.

p.s. I just read your "week 2" update. I had no idea there was a fee of 5% (wham!) for not surpassing the goal in flexible funding. That's kind of ridiculous. I noticed Justin suggested hiring a designer for bbPress, and I think that's a great idea. Maybe a designer affiliate of yours could draw up some snazzy bbPress mockups for a last PR push?