Matthew Mullenweg and all the WP community released bbPress, a new forum software. Open-Source, Free, Simple and Usable.

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.

I didn’t test the software yet, I’ll probably do it this afternoon, but I bet it’s great. I don’t know how Matt could create a ‘bad’ software ;)

Update: I tested the software on my local web server and it had some features I couldn’t test, like the registration, that involves the use of the mail() function in PHP, which cannot be used from the IP address 127.0.0.1. Anyway, I can say without testing it that “Simplicity” is used at its maximum…