However, it is dying. Since July, it has received 46 thousand downloads. WordPress has received just under 10 million in almost the same amount of time.

The problem isn’t that bbPress is slow, or buggy, or insecure. bbPress is none of those things. The problem is a catch-22.

If nobody uses bbPress, nobody will spread the word. If nobody spreads the word, nobody will know what they’re missing.

Find bugs, write patches, run it on your server, but most importantly, spread the word.

We can help bbPress pull through this. We can revive the wonderful, simplistic software. All you need to do is tell your friends, or post something like this to your blog.

bbPM 0.1-alpha1 is now available to anyone who wants to test it.

If you have a bbPress forum of version 1.0-alpha1 or higher, you can download and install bbPM.

If you don’t have the required version of bbPress, you can try it out at my geeky forum.