[djsteve]

Resolved after reading this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-install-of-bp-press-cant-post-any-topics-in-forum

I decided to login as a group admin, click on the admin for the group, and checked the box to enable forum posting. Now I have a publicly viewable forum post – so it seems to work… I guess this is resolved.

Although I must suggest adding a note somewhere around the forums posting area that posting a message to a forum that does not have it enabled will do no good… as I and many others are left confused about why we make a forum post and it just disappears.. I guess a note saying that that feature needs to be enabled by the group admin would be nice.

Or perhaps we should be able to enable general forums for users without groups membership being needed, maybe?