Hi CK
your plugins are really great!
I have read in several places about December when you will update them to version 1.0 of bbPress
is it still the case?
it seems like development of bbPress stopped after Sam departure..
We have planned to move our forums to bbPress sometimes in December/January
- honestly, really waiting for your plugins to work with 1.0
it would be really great to hear from you, if you will have time to update theme etc..
thanks
kris
so what can we expect for your old plugins to be updated? any time soon?
Because Matt just recently stated to the public that bbPress is going to be changed into a plugin for WordPress (which would require a radical change that breaks everything) at this time I do not intend to upgrade any plugins for 1.x - it would be pointless.
Instead I will most likely fork bbPress 0.9 because of it's significant performance over 1.0 (and that nearly all 1.0 themes and plugins can be easily backported).
Sounds good! What about the people already on the new version? will you provide anything to switch over?
Wow, fork of bbPress 0.9.
Awesome 
Great to see you back on the scene and your site up and running again _CK_
Well I don't want to get anyone too excited as my contributions at this point will be a fraction of what they have been in previous years. I simply intend to help when and where I can, but no promises.
My pace now is going to be rather slow, especially considering I am a one person team, have other obligations, and can't make a living off bbPress (heck it couldn't even pay to keep the lights on over the past few years).
As far as a fork, if people didn't like how bbPress only had updates every several months, they certainly won't be thrilled with my timeline, lol.
But at least people could have options and won't necessarily have to abandon using bbPress if they don't want to.
_ck_ I think this is an awesome idea and wish you the best of luck! Rock on
Fork sounds intriguing! Are you going to be adding new features to the .9 fork or is it more of a maintenance release?
Glad you're back on the bbPress scene!
Well first, the fork idea, is simply that, an idea, not a definite intention.
But the fork would actually be in the opposite direction, not to add features but to strip bbPress down to it's core, improve performance even further, make it more modular and make several things that are built-in now into plugins, ie. gravatars (which I have already done).
Then there would be powerful little features like immediate $bbdb query access without loading the entire core, so ajax plugins could get lightning fast responses from the server for anything in the database.
Also a way to make admin menus not load during regular runtime. They would be like the special underscore plugins, only loaded during admin. This way you can make all the fancy admin menus you want, but they do not load or execute unless a real administrator is in the admin section.
The idea is to do all the above while maintaining 90%+ compatibility with bbPress 0.9 and existing plugins. Not an easy feat, but something I've contemplated for awhile now.
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