[Tony_Bacala]

Just to be clear, the removal of the forum threads from front page had zero to do with what the comments in the thread were about.

Front page works on Wordpress. Forums work on OLD vBulletin. Merging the two systems has always been difficult. The upgrade of the front page system to newer tech and server software to match made merging these two systems even more difficult. So for now, it was removed in favor of the thread link.

I hope to upgrade the forums themselves to newer tech eventually, and when that happens, will attempt to re-connect the two systems then.

I will look into a short term fix of generating two links - first page, last page, for the thread link.