I'd be happy to listen to the pros and cons of reviving BackPress, fundamentally as one of the bbPress team who hasn't delved very deep at all into the code base of bbPress 1.x, reviving BackPress or not I think this would be a fun exercise for me personally...

My big complaint here is how and where this discussion is taking place, first it started on Facebook, I'm not joining Facebook so I can talk about BackPress, then a Google hangout limiting participation, and now an "AdvancedWP Slack" instance where I must be invited to by an administrator to talk about BackPress, again this isn't going to happen.

BackPress is an open source project and I'd like to see this discussion in the open and publicly available to anyone who would like to contribute to this discussion.