Currently when you are viewing a forum, you can see a breadcrumb like this

 Project :: News (Lead: Phil Guerra)  Using the News module

I would however see it more usable like this

 Project Forums:  : News (Lead: Phil Guerra)  Using the News module

This would allow the user to have 3 kinds of views.

1. The Root View with all the forum groups and forums visible

2. The Group View with only the forums for a specific group

3. The Forum View with only the threads in one specific forum

Further down the road, it could be useful to have 2 settings for the forum module.

1. Show only X, where X would be a certain forum group

2. Disable Root View, by which, the Root View breadcrumb would be disabled thus locking the module into a certain forum group.

Well, after making this post, I have 2 options because next, I'm going to look into the 'Using the forums' forum.

Option 1:

I click 5 x back button in order to get back to the root view where the view is already scrolled to the correct position among the 51 Forums In 25 Groups.

Option 2:

I click the root breadcrumb and end up at the top of the page in the root view, then scroll up and down until I find the correct forum amongst 51 Forums In 25 Groups.

suggested: option 3

I could simply click the breadcrumb and avoid all the hassle. Besides, the breadcrumb already has a visual separator ' :: ' between the root and the group so why not fully implement it?

Despite what usability studies say, there's no real 'other way' to browse this forum than either using the forum/post links coupled with back button (which is a horrible way), or then just use the breadcrumbs (which are not fully implemented).

What comes to did I check the settings? No, I didn't even install the forums module yet. I was just making a suggestion

Thank you