Yes, we have Light Speed cache active. Disabling it isn't an option so the workaround posted above works for us.

Add comments like shown in class-posts.php. The side effect is any private posts will now be public: // else{//If doesn't have "View Private Posts" ac...

Spoke too soon. The problem persists and the only working workaround is to comment out the offending code in class-posts.php. More details at:

Yes, deleted/disabled cache. Makes no difference.

Yes, did that. It fixes topic pagination until a topic has a new post in it and then it's back to permanently disappearing. So I've altered class-po...

Spoke too soon. A new topic reply will once again kill topic pagination until the same cpanel SQL command as below is applied. Have to go back to my c...

@antonM, that indeed got topic pagination back that is maintained even after new posts are added to the DB. thank you so much. 

This fix worked until a new topic/post is made whereby the pagination disappears again. Have reverted back to the class-posts.php mod as shown at:

@sofy , the cpanel DB check/fix did fix the problem. Thank you.

@Robert, the cookies option is improving the view count of my problem topic. Thank you 🙂

@Robert, all checks out apart from"Make sure wpForo Cookies are enabled in Dashboard > Forums > Tools > Privacy & Rules admin page." This...

@Robert, further to my previous point, I see frequent "1/2/3/4/5" viewing the topic in question, clicking the topic showing they are not registered us...

@Robert, both those settings are enabled. I'm using Google Analytics and notice for one topic it's getting 700 distinct views over a day. Wpforo has r...

@Robert, have you guys had a chance to count guest views of a topic? My testing showing guest views are still not being counted.