I think you guys need to add some links at the top of the thread that lead you back to the other threads or to the homepage of the forum.  Because whenever I go into viewing a thread, in order to get back to the main page to view all the topics I have to click on ‘Community’ at the very top of the page.  There should be some links back to the main topic page at the top of the thread you are viewing instead.

Agreed - navigation can be clunky at times.

I think this is a good call; breadcrumbs are an important feature in navigation and I find myself constantly clicking the community button up top and navigating back down to where I was. I might also recommend some CSS changes. I don’t have anything against trying to make the color scheme “girl friendly” or anything like that, but there are difficulties in reading many links and such because of dark colors on dark backgrounds. I’d also recommend using multiple browsers to test in because I recall some inconsistencies (I use Firefox mostly, but switch around on occasion). At some point I’ll try to run through some things with Google Chrome, Safari and IE to see what else I come up with. It also seems to me like some of the dividers are unnecessarily tall which might help support avatars when we have them, but for now all I see is a longer scroll bar.