I’ve dusted off an old site of mine – using buddypress.

I have the Forums component setup as a seperate site in Multisite, and just went to go through to make sure all the features worked on this site.

When I went to the forums site, I was presented with the Forum list as usual (I have created a Static page and use the shortcode to load the forums list). The forums themselves have topics inside of them, and I can view them seperately by visiting the backend and viewing the topic. When I click the seperate board links, it instead takes me to the Create New Topic section.

What could be going wrong?

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 4 months ago]

Maybe a permalinks issue, try changing them to something else, hit save, change them back and save again.

It could also be a plugin conflict or a theme issue, try disabling all your other plugins and switch the Twenty Fourteen theme.