Thank you for writing this, Jeff. I don't like that bbPress got a poor review, but I do believe reviews like this are important because they help improve the software. It's not often that you can get good, honest, helpful feedback beyond "this sucks".

By the way, the nomenclature of "forum" and "category" are not new ideas to bbPress. They've been around a lot longer and in other forum software. My plugin has the same terms, so it's good to know those were odd to you.

I have mad respect for anyone who has put time into building bbPress. It's a lot of work trying to get WordPress to be a forum. You really have to jump through some crazy hoops because WP doesn't exactly make it easy to do a lot of stuff.

When I release version 1.0 of my plugin, I expect the same treatment with its review. :)