hey Ivo,

I am really sorry that I didn't explain very well of my fix above.

Actually that was a bug on our end after troubleshoot long time ago from yesterday night.

Let me explain again with my fix above.

If the user HAVE permission to post in any of one category in your site + Active subscription
STEP 1 : Login as `media` user account (with active subscription)
STEP 2 : Only this category active subscription member do not have permission to post in this category `Announcements`, screenshot here : http://screencast.com/t/Tov6cS0MT4o
STEP 3 : So it will show all the category without this category `Announcements`, screenshot here : http://screencast.com/t/3OXgvgmSw6E

If the user ATLEAST have permission to post in ONE of the category in your site + Expired subscription
** By default all of your categories do not have allow `registered user group` to create post in any of categories.
Then I added one of the category `registered` user group allow to create post in this category `General Offtopic`, check my screenshot here : http://screencast.com/t/jN4kyla32C

STEP 1 : Login as `media` user account (with expired subscription)
STEP 2 : When the user click on `Ask` question button, it will only allow user post in this category `General Offtopic` (screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/q9fHDbLkmJh )

If the user DO NOT have permission to post in any of category in your site + Expired subscription
Then the system will check if there do not have assign any category permission for this `Registered` user group to create post, it will show a system message "Sorry, but you do not have sufficient privileges to perform the requested action" when the user click on the `ask` question button.

Example : If I didn't do redirection to discussion homepage, it will show the ask question page then user will think that they still can submit a new post, but all the category will not show out is because they do not have permission to submit post in any of category in your site. (screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/jShIKoqhmjl0 )

Just fix the **** bug! Do not change the whole logic by adding hacks to files that cannot even be overriden!

I believe you misunderstand with my sentence at above for the `override` this keyword, I am sorry for that my English is not good as well.

First, I trying to apply the fix in this file on your site -> JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\themes\simplistic\searchbar.php but whatever I modified/remove the code from this file, it still show everything on the page. i thought that was cache issue then I went to backend > system > clean cache, it still the same.

So I went to JoomlaFolder/template/inspiretheme/html/.. file location then I noticed you already have did some customization in this file
com_easydiscuss/searchbar.php , you can take a look what you customized on this file ( screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/bVPqQYrdgDeO ) , Since I knew you have customized something in this file, so I just applied my fix in this part of code.

// LINE 31

		<?php if( $system->config->get( 'layout_toolbar_cat_filter' ) ){ ?>

		<div class="discuss-tablecell discuss-searchbar--left discuss-searchbar--filter">

			<div class="discuss-searchbar--select">

				<?php echo $nestedCategories; ?>

			</div>

		</div>

		<?php } ?>



//Replace with

		<?php if ($system->config->get('layout_toolbar_cat_filter')) { ?>

			<?php if (!empty($nestedCategories))) { ?>

				<div class="discuss-tablecell discuss-searchbar--left discuss-searchbar--filter">

					<div class="discuss-searchbar--select">

						<?php echo $nestedCategories; ?>

					</div>

				</div>

			<?php } ?>

		<?php } ?>

By the way this fix will included in next release version.

Hope this explanation will help.