Reply To: Users cannot see first post in each topic
I had already done all the repairs too, even locked me out when I was remapping existing users to forum roles, got that back by editing in the db though using a backup.
I have looked at the code and what it does in the end is return true or false in every case, resulting in the showing or not showing of the whole page, not forum elements. And disabling that code completely just skips the check, done that several times, but it didn’t make a difference.