I have a site that runs WordPress 3.4.1 with Buddypress 1.5.6
It has the Group forums turned on but they just mess me about and here is why:
1. The editor will format a forum page quite nicely yet the formatting disappears when the forum post is displayed
2. I put in standard double quotes and it decides to change them to something different. Took me ages to solve that one today when that messed up an html snippet that I had posted.
3. I post a snippet of html to demonstrate something which gets displayed as html. I go i to correct a typo and then it decides to decipher it as a link. I use the actual codes around the link then edit the post again cos I still had something wrong. It has decided to replace the codes yet again. Basically I am unable to edit a post for fear that it will change something
4. There is no easy way to add images to forum posts yet I can do it in the actual group. Now I may just be missing a plugin for this one but I cannot tell users to type in the html to include something. They dont know html so I increase my support load

I need forums to work for some things but the way they are is causing me immense frustration. I may be missing something obvious. If so What?

Note that I wont change core files because I have enough of an IT background to know that causes many problems with upgrades. Child theme might be the solution although I would prefer to wait for BP 1.6 to do that

[@r-a-y Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

It seems like you’re using a 3rd-party plugin for the group forum editor. Please contact the plugin developer for support.

Here are a couple of editors you could try:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/u-buddypress-forum-editor/
https://github.com/boonebgorges/bp-tinymce
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-editor-for-comments/

Please note that I haven’t tested any of these.