Glad you got it sorted. I bet your feeling better now!
Hi Karen,
My issue was self-inflicted. I’m using S2 member to restrict access to my forums and I checked one to many boxes in the restrict view config. It wasn’t obvious to me that the restriction would impact specific aspects of a user in bbpress, I was intending an all or nothing approach to user access. It is definitely a frustrating issue to try and resolve. All I can suggest is check any user restrictions you have in user roles as there seems to be something strange happening in accessing specific views of topics and replies. By strange I mean difficult to debug. Still not sure why you should be able to configure it so that a user could not view the topic details but could reply! Good luck and I hope you resolve your issue.
Cheers
Dave
