bbpress, from the makers of WordPress

Matthew Mullenweg, who is one of the lead maintainers of the venerable Word Press project (as seen here on Radioball). Has announced the bbpress forum software project. Looks very interesting; combining the best of the blog world and the best of the community forum world.

The goal of bbPress is to bring some weblog and WordPress sensibilities to forum software. It’s never going to have a tenth of the features of phpBB or vBulletin, but that’s a feature itself. My experience with those packages is they’re like a herd of elephants who evolved on a strange island in bizzare ways, and they tend to foster a type of community that is antithetical to I’m trying to accomplish. We’ve learned a lot in the past few years about how the interactive web works, why do most forums look and act the same they did in 2000? Why is it still so hard to integrate user systems or mesh designs? Why can’t I ping a thread like I can a weblog post? Why can’t I filter by XFN values?

Looks interesting.
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Post by: Brendan | December 29, 2004 | Filed Under tech