I'll demo my WPCandy forum!

I’ll dip my toe in the water first.

I’ve been working off and on — between writing up stuff for WPCandy, of course — the last few weeks on building out bbPress here on WPCandy. The result is what you’re looking at right now, wpcandy.com/discussions.

My implementation is far from perfect right now, but I’m satisfied enough with it to launch. I’m still learning a bit about how all of the inner bits and bobs of bbPress 2.0 operate. Because of that, I’ve stuck with the defaults in a number of places here. Templates, conventions, etc. are all, for the most part, standard for bbPress. I want to learn the rules before I break them.

I hope that the banner, the icons, and other touches help to draw the forums into the site a bit. As the activity gets going here on the forum we’ll work out additional ways to bring forum discussions into other aspects of the site.

That said, on the top of my to-do list (after announcing that this exists in a few minutes) is the following:

• Implement basic formatting tools for topics and replies (like our comments have).
• Spend time massaging the feel of the various new forms. They need love.
• Pull in love for Pros into Discussions, same as the blog comments have.

What do you folks want in our forum?