@Jeffro - There's no problem with adding them in the same conversation. It's just that in some of these discussions, there's no real distinction made between the two. As you mentioned in your post, "the forums on WordPress.org are the #1 example of what BBPress is capable of," which is definitely true. How the software is used there is the "face" of bbPress. It's what the world sees.

I feel like WP.org is using pretty much a base theme with a few plugins, which isn't really representative of what the software can do. Once we get a few more out-of-the-ordinary examples (and if 1.0 is ever released), many views might change.

If I wasn't so wrapped up in WordPress, I'd be working a lot more with bbPress. There's so much potential. As you can tell by now, I'm a bit of a bbPress fanboy.

And, we've gotta get your spellin' right! It's "bbPress." ;) <-- At least from what I can tell.