Board Game Arena

When hover on the link for this subforum (Discussions) in the main forum page, it points to viewforum.php?f=3
But when I click on it, the address bar shows just https://boardgamearena.com/forum/, which is the same as the main page.
As a result, if I now go into a topic, and press the "back" button (or equivalent function), I'm taken back to the main forum page, and not to the subforum.

This is also happening for me.
Also, all my personal settings, like how I like the table list to look and the icon size in the Play Now page and whether I like my Forest Shuffle cards pinned or in a floating container. All of that has been reset to default. It happened at some point today, because it was normal this morning. I don't know if it's related, or just coincidentally happening at the same time.

Jellby wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 15:20 When hover on the link for this subforum (Discussions) in the main forum page, it points to viewforum.php?f=3
But when I click on it, the address bar shows just https://boardgamearena.com/forum/, which is the same as the main page.
As a result, if I now go into a topic, and press the "back" button (or equivalent function), I'm taken back to the main forum page, and not to the subforum.

I'm not seeing the behavior you describe. However, I am seeing that query string for this sub-forum doesn't just end in f=3, it includes the gamefilter parameters, which is something you shouldn't need if f=3. Maybe that's always been there and I just never had a reason to notice it until we started discussing it in connection with the bug?

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 17:18

Jellby wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 15:20 When hover on the link for this subforum (Discussions) in the main forum page, it points to viewforum.php?f=3
But when I click on it, the address bar shows just https://boardgamearena.com/forum/, which is the same as the main page.
As a result, if I now go into a topic, and press the "back" button (or equivalent function), I'm taken back to the main forum page, and not to the subforum.

I'm not seeing the behavior you describe. However, I am seeing that query string for this sub-forum doesn't just end in f=3, it includes the gamefilter parameters, which is something you shouldn't need if f=3. Maybe that's always been there and I just never had a reason to notice it until we started discussing it in connection with the bug?

I see a huge BGA logo at the top of the forum like this: https://snipboard.io/nRUYra.jpg

And yeah once I go to a subforum, the BGA headers vanish.

So couple weird things I am seeing:
[1] if you click on one of the game-specific sub-forums at the bottom of the main forum page, 1) it takes you to the bottom of that sub-forum's page and 2) the URL in the address bar doesn't change, i.e., even while you're on that sub-forum's page the URL still reads "https://boardgamearena.com/forum"

But if you mouseover the name of that forum you can see the full address, e.g., "https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=502" and clicking on that takes you to the top of that sub-forum.

[2] If you click on one of the game-specific sub-forums and then click BACK, the display of all the game-specific sub-forums gets cut off and you can't scroll past the first five or so. Refreshing fixes the issue.

It's back to forum.boardgamearena.com for me.

Jellby wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 17:59 It's back to forum.boardgamearena.com for me.

How do you get to the Forums? For me clicking on "Forum" in the main navigation tabs takes me to https://boardgamearena.com/forum and that's what you see if you mouseover the "Forum" link.

All that said, at least it's back to only showing the games you've played.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 18:02 How do you get to the Forums? For me clicking on "Forum" in the main navigation tabs takes me to https://boardgamearena.com/forum and that's what you see if you mouseover the "Forum" link.

Yes, same here. I meant that for the time being I will use forum.boardgamearena.com instead (that is, *not* an iframe and no BGA top bar), which works as expected.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑29 July 2026, 18:04 All that said, at least it's back to only showing the games you've played.

Not that it makes any significant difference for me