All discussions are under moderation. I have just tried posting one from a test member account and the same issue occurred. Right now there are 3 pending and none of them will load.
Flarum core 0.1.0-beta.8
PHP version: 7.2.12
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, hash, filter, ftp, gettext, gmp, SPL, iconv, pcntl, readline, Reflection, session, standard, shmop, SimpleXML, mbstring, tokenizer, xml, apcu, bcmath, dom, fileinfo, gd, imagick, imap, intl, json, exif, mysqli, mysqlnd, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, Phar, posix, soap, sockets, ssh2, tidy, timezonedb, uploadprogress, wddx, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Zend OPcache
+---------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions | | |
+---------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| ID | Version | Commit |
+---------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| flarum-tags | v0.1.0-beta.8.1 | |
| flarum-lock | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-likes | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-approval | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-markdown | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-mentions | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-pusher | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-statistics | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-sticky | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-subscriptions | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-flags | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-auth-github | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flarum-emoji | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flagrow-ads | 0.2.0-beta.1 | |
| flarum-lang-english | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| michaelbelgium-discussion-views | v0.1.0-beta.8 | |
| flagrow-upload | 0.7.0 | |
| s9e-mediaembed | 1.0.0 | |
| flagrow-byobu | 0.2.0 | |
| s9e-fancypants | 1.1.0 | |
| reflar-twofactor | 0.1.0-beta.4 | |
| fof-spamblock | v0.1.0 | |
| fof-user-bio | 0.1.1 | |
| fof-formatting | 0.1.0 | |
| fof-secure-https | v0.1.0 | |
+---------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
We had the same issue with all third-party extensions disabled, right after the update.