I'd actually be interested to know if the homepage generates much traffic. This isn't a design critique or anything like that, I'm genuinely interested because it seems a lot of forum members at least barely use it (or even remember we have one) and certainly for me it must've been a couple of years since I visited it
just makes me wonder if it's worth the upkeep and effort that's all!
Like does it generate enough hits to warrant it existing, or does it tend to be the forum people find first?