Reply To: Can Chris Coyier please write a tutorial on how he setup his forum?

[hackyaaa]

@chrisburton, that’s the exact concern I have for end-users.

Vanilla is a bulletin board many end-users are accustomed to.

bbpress on the other hand is a forum which some users find very confusing.

However, the benefit of forum solution such as bbpress, especially combined with BuddyPress, is enormous.

The trick, as a developer, is to organize the forum in such fashion that most end users feel comfortable using.

I had developed a community site on bbpress + buddypress last year & it was a total disaster. I naively assumed that end-users would find the benefits of many social functions that are built in buddypress.

Instead, many end-users complained how confusing the new site setup was.

After only a week, the site owner asked me to revert the site back to vBulletin. Was not a fun experience, at all.

I need to somehow create a theme which does not create confusion. That’s where I am suck at.

Sometimes we do the dumbest thing in the world. Just look at Windows 8. LOL

I don’t want to be that guy who gets fired for bringing in the innovation no one likes.