About a year ago (in fact late '05 if I remember correctly) the site was rebuilt from scratch using new forum software to fix a problem with the old software slowing to a crawl and crashing frequently once it got too full. At that time several of the features on the front page were incompatible with the new software and were put "on hold". Shortly after that real life got hold of Robert (the site's owner) and he basically retired from managing the site, leaving it up to the moderators to look after the forums.
While we can do pretty much anything to the forum itself I don't think we can get to the html front end. Many of the frequent visitors skip the front end completely and bookmark the main forum page.
Hope that explains it.
