In reply to christicehurst.

I completely agree with you on the "design" aspect of bbPress. I would've tried to use a little more tact in my comment though. But, it's not just bbPress; it's pretty much all forum software.

This may or may not be a reflection of bbPress. The one major thing it lacks, to me, is a strong theme developer community. I see many themes these days claiming bbPress support, but they don't really bring anything new to the table in terms of design.

If I were JJJ, I'd probably spend a little of the dough on hiring an awesome designer (someone like Tung Do) to come in and make an awesomely-designed theme for bbPress. It doesn't have to be the default. It just needs to be something that showcases the software.