bbPress + AJAX = “oooh… pretty…”

bbPress has been getting an extreme AJAX makeover, and things are looking pretty good.
We’re still working on the best user interface, particularly for posting new posts. Firas mentioned the possibility of including a cute spinner à la Technorati. Perhaps a spinner over the post textbox would be best. Something like Owen’s CanaryComment.

WordPress.com invites.

WordPress.com is free as in beer, the software behind it is free as in speech, but my invite ain’t. It’ll cost you a pretty penny: twenty-five of them, to be exact.
Go forth and multiply.
Update: The news keeps on spreading. And if auctions aren’t your thing, try a guessing game!

Stylesheets

I’ll be looking around eventually for people with installs to check out their CSS. I’ve contacted one site already about the possibility of including its stylesheet with bbPress as the default. Please feel free to leave your or others’ site(s) here.

You can count on bbPress

The only problem is bbPress can’t count just yet. There’s a few issues we’re working on re: pagination. To know the total number of pages a particular topic spans, for example, you have to know the total number of posts. But how do you define “total”. With things like deleted and [...]

I may need to delete you

Thus saith matt about my precious real ultimate waffe.
Well, it all seems to be square now. Rock on WordPress.com. Rock on.