Oh no problem Robin. 🙂
I should have stated its just my opinion that we should try to help users that may come across “forum page” related issues by creating a guide in the codex to better explain how to do it, and show how helpful it would be, but more importantly stop all these similar issues users would get that I see in these forums all the time, so that us moderators do not have to repeat ourselves or try to guess what could be causing an issue.
You can either change recommended in my earlier statement with required. As it is not required during setup. I am sometimes terrible at choosing the right words to explain what I mean. Great that you pointed that out Robin!
And although yes, it is recommended for further customization of a users forums in the settings. Like I said, my opinion is that the “forum page” is not recommended, until most of the user generated issues are laid out with possible solutions for users in a new guide, and either we or anyone that wants to can make a trac ticket to avoid these type of issues all together, and improve the bbPress plugin user experience.
I would like to talk to you privately through email if you have time, about improving your codex guides also, and I do not want to butt heads with you over just some guides.
Edit: Created the ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2993