jivany is saying precisely what I was getting at. A ‘forum’ is not a specific tool or product: it is a way of structuring online conversation. I continue to argue that it is an essential one.
If I could rip bbPress out of BP and slot in Vanilla (for example) as the forum-interaction-service-provider and have it integrate nicely with the rest of the app, I’d do so in a freaking instant.
