Re: Is this the way Forums are supposed to work?
In the current theme setup, no… So you’re not missing anything. There is no general “New Topic” page mostly because the number of forums that people can create by being able to create their own groups can grow to be pretty enormous.
It’s the difference between http://testbp.org/forums and http://testbp.org/bbpress/
The first link is obviously the familiar look of forums in BP1.1, the second link is what the TestBP sites’ bbPress looks like without any taming or control. There are 11,100 groups on that site alone, most of which have test forums. If there was a general “New Topic” page (like http://testbp.org/bbpress/?new=1) you’ll see you just have a select drop down list of 10,000 forums to place your topic in, which isn’t really an effective way to categorize the discussions when displayed in that way.
I think when people adapt to this method of user/group/topic centric forums versus a top-down categorical list of forums, we’ll see some unique and interesting setups.
