Hi! I was originally looking at BBpress, only because I figured integration with wordpress would be easy…..until I found simple:Press…. Simple:Press is obviously great…Really is a great plugin with a lot of very thought out and well implemented features…. I've ALWAYS wanted to have some sort of rellationship between post comments and forum posts…….

I have it installed but am wondering how it scales. If I have 50 to 200 users on at the same time, will I have issues? Will this slow down my wordpress installation as well if there in fact are speed issues? What if there are 50 to 200 users on forums and on blog?(not concerned server wise, just codewise….)While a stand alone board like bbpress is probably going to be able to scale better then any plugin can, I'm not clear on if that is something I even need to worry about given my volume requirements….or future requirements, I should say. If for some reason we did outgrow Simple:press (if this is possible) then integration into bbpress or similar would be how hard on a scale of 1 to 10 ? Any feedback is greatly appreciated! right now I'm not worried at all about simple:press's abilities, I just want to know what I'm getting into so that 6 to 18 months down the road I'm not in a tough spot because we chose the wrong route to go in terms of plugins vs standalone boards….. thanks!!!

Great, thanks for your feedback…. I think simple:press is a no brainer for us so in the future if we ever had performance issues and needed to move to an independent board, it would probably be worth the effort simply for the time we get to save right now in implementing it as opposed to setting up and skinning bbpress….. simple:press reallly fits amazingly well into existing theme and it seems to me that the features and like (from my quick glance, haven't installed bbpress) are even better then some of the stand alone boards anyways…. thanks again!