Somebody had to do something for it to start working again... I would think. But why only fix it half-ass and make it a pain to navigate? God forbid you do some thing stupid like hit the back button or the forum button at the top of the page...

Back to the home page for you asshole.

You have to go to the forum icon at the top right of the page and click on forum home to get to the main forum page. Makes perfect sense.