Well, we OGF regulars know that luring people into OGF is the main purpose of OGS, so obviously we do not really understand what a link back to OGS is good for.
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I don’t think it’s weird. The logo in the upper left works the same as it does on all Discourse forums, and the link below takes you exactly where it says it does
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If we’re going with an acronym, it has to be this because that’s what the acronym has been for as long as I can remember
I’m pretty sure all Discourse instances I’ve used use a subdomain and treat it like its own thing
Technically, of course you are right and this explains the behaviour of the logo. My point (what I meant by mental model) is that I still consider that I am “on OGS” when I am on the forums, just like if I’m in a chat or doing problems, so the fact that the logo behaves differently on this specific part of the site is jarring to me. You could say that is a subpage in spirit but not in practice.
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I haven’t been on other discourse forums so that comparison is useless to me (and I daresay many others), but I have been on other bits of OGS (the non-forum bits) where that same logo (or the Ukraine version) goes to the OGS homepage so it’s a reasonable expectation that that same logo goes to the same place. I’m not suggesting that the discourse designers/developers made a mistake in making “top left logo image go to discourse forum home page”, but that OGS’s choice of the standard OGS logo to put there, rather than one with Forums tacked on as suggested, is a poor one.
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I mean, I have no objection to some minor graphical change such as changing the “S” to an “F”, I just want to defend the current behavior, because it’s intuitive and works well. I dedicate a tab to OGF, so most of the time I’m grateful for the logo taking me to recent posts, and on the occasions I want to pop into the site, the blue hyperlink provides a nice facile way of doing that without taking up much vertical space when I’m not interested in it. Honestly the perfect balance imo
I don’t think that there is an opportunity to change the behaviour: it’s a discourse thing.
There might be the opportunity to change the graphic in the top top left - and there also might be the oppotunity to change the appearance of the link to the main site.
(I say “might” in the sense of “it might be agreed”, it’s definitely technically possible).
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I’m not really sure what to make of that: what I can say is that I can see the control panel of our discourse, and I can’t see a way to do it there 
It says it’s possible to change the target of the logo (you have to add some JS)
I don’t want the click behavior of the logo to change. It’s standard for that logo to go to the latest posts. There’s the blue link for those who want to go to OGS (as is sometimes the case for me, and I’m glad it’s there when I need it)