# Forum link on main page points to inaturalist itself

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** web\
**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717 "2021-01-25T21:05:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![schoenitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schoenitz/32/56_2.png) [@schoenitz](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schoenitz)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/1 "2021-01-25T21:05:01Z")

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**Platform** : website

**Browser** , if a website issue: Chrome

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://www.inaturalist.org/home](https://www.inaturalist.org/home)

**Screenshots of what you are seeing** :

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/f/f40f589d1c911c701472d6aaf1b2d09633c56c06.png)

**Description of problem** :

The forum link in the “Forum” section on the right side of the main page points to the main page itself. The forum link in the footer is OK, though.

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**Author:** ![actuallyaxley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/actuallyaxley/32/9377_2.png) [@actuallyaxley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/actuallyaxley)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/2 "2021-01-25T21:13:52Z")

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Same happening in Safari (on mobile)

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**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/3 "2021-01-25T21:18:30Z")

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Interesting. Must have been a new thing today because I’ve used that very recently and opened the Forum tab. Not sure if this is related but it took a very long time to load for me too.

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**Author:** ![dlevitis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dlevitis/32/78796_2.png) [@dlevitis](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dlevitis)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/4 "2021-01-25T22:27:10Z")

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And Firefox (on Mac). Pretty clearly not browser specific.

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**Author:** ![zdanko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/zdanko/32/20125_2.png) [@zdanko](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/zdanko)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/5 "2021-01-26T00:05:49Z")

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This is happening everywhere I’ve tried. Definitely new, this was working yesterday.

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**Author:** ![robotpie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/robotpie/32/630_2.png) [@robotpie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/robotpie)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/6 "2021-01-26T01:16:10Z")

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I was just about to report this bug.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/7 "2021-01-27T00:09:13Z")

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It’s been fixed now.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/forum-link-on-main-page-points-to-inaturalist-itself/19717/8 "2021-01-27T00:09:32Z")

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