I've been hitting the PICO8 website for years now but just recently I noticed that the "Forum" link in the PICO8 site menu takes you to the Cartridges/Releases sub-forum and NOT the main forum...and that's not good.

Shouldn't the main menu link take you to the forum landing page?

I've just assumed that clicking the main menu link takes me to the starting point and I drill down from there...not that it has done some drilling for me already.

Now that I've paid attention to this, I'm seeing A TON of threads I never saw before that I'm interested in. One challenge forums have is duplicate and buried posts but if the site makes it hard to see all posts in the first place, it doesn't help.

This is the forum start page: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7

This is the where the "Forum" main menu link goes: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7#sub=2

Actually...hold the phone! That complaint is only half truth!

If you come in through the front door of the PICO8 site (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php) and click "Forum" it DOES take you to the forum home page.

BUT...if you come in through the side door, like through a Google search as many probably do, the "Forum" link in the main menu takes you to the Cartridges sub-forum as I called out above.

So the link on the PICO8 home page is correct but the link on threads and sub-pages is wrong.

Hopefully that's an easy fix because it would be super handy for everyone coming to the site, especially those coming in from a search that maybe are new to the website.

Hi @morningtoast:

I always just go HERE: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs and never have any problems.

If you use Firefox and press L all by itself in the address field, it weighs the number of times you've been there and will ultimately suggest that exact address, so it can be reached with two keystrokes "L" and ENTER.

Fair, but most people coming from Google won't get to that page. They'll land on a post thread. But then from that page they can't get back to the forum home page easily. Thus they'll only see a fraction of discussions unless they choose to dig deeper through the sub-nav menu (which they probably won't).

This isn't about where people should go, it's a matter of where they actually go. Unfortunately, websites don't have a single entry point.

And this isn't a question of if the link is wrong or not. It is. Call it a bug.