Thanks for the post Jeff, just like the survey which I am still digesting, there are a few things for us to think about here, some obvious such as core features requested and others more ideological in nature such as the role forums play in the new web 'social' era.

I have most of the bbPress codex saved in bookmarks and I end up where I need to be after logging in if needed, I'll go take a look at the weird login problem you mention shortly.

I have no idea where you came upon the codex article you mention that 404's, there has never been a page like this on the bbPress Codex. There 'is' a codex page with that title on the BuddyPress codex here along with the parent page. The closest bbPress has is this Get Involved page, either or we probably should have something along the same lines as BuddyPress on the bbPress codex.