BuddyPress.org

Just completed a fresh install like you did Arghagain. Thought it was just my eyes that was trickerating on me!

Ahhh. Figured it out. Based upon what I read over here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/%C2%BFincluded-bbpress-in-buddypress-or-integrate-standalone-bbpress

You’ll realize that in the BuddyPress integrated lite bbPress, you have to create a group (analogous to forum title creation) and then you’ll be able to post topics to that group’s forum listings.

At least I think this is how it works!