How-To Geek

I changed the default posts per page down from 30 to 20 because it was getting a little ridiculous.

There are going to be some very big and substantial changes coming soon... shouldn't be a big deal because we don't have all that many users yet.

We rule!

On a separate note, I just added a new version of the avatar plugin, so icons with transparent PNGs will work now.

I like the layout too. most forums are so cluttered and horrible to read.

I think that 20 is a fairly decent default, but we can tweak it if we need to. I mostly wanted the front page to stop being so intolerably long.

bbPress is a very new forum... it's the forum for wordpress.org and does a fairly decent job there, considering the vast amount of posts they get... I think they have about 100k topics and around 500k replies.

The great thing is that because it starts as a blank slate, you can add the features you want through plugins, which is where it shines. The plugin architecture means you can completely customize without making a single core change. Not many other forums let you do that.

The bad thing is that there aren't nearly enough plugins yet, because it's so new.

Oh I see now. In the 'Reader Contributions' forum, its 4 pages already.

My suggestion is moot, :o

thread, or forum.. or both?

Moved the navigational stuff over to the right to be consistent with the rest of the site. I'm going to eventually figure out how to use the sidebar look from the main site on the forum, but haven't gotten to that yet since the bbPress default theme is such a pain to modify.

I really need to just redo the theme with proper positioning, but I don't really have the time for that.

I also added icons for the folders... I'm not going to overdo it with graphics, but I figured a few little things might help usability.

Is there already a way to change your username? If not, could you make it possible?

I hadn't realized just how long mine was until after it was already submitted. I know that can mess up the look of the site for people and don't want to be the cause of that.

Thanks.