A browser history issue has been reported when the home page is not set to “Latest”. To reproduce the issue:
Visit a Discourse website with a non-“Latest” home page, such as Funcom.
Navigate to the “Latest” page via the hamburger menu.
Click the top-left icon to return to the home page.
Click the browser Back button, which does not redirect to the “Latest” page as expected.
Multiple users have confirmed this issue, including Dannii and tshenry. tshenry notes that a second click of the back button will redirect to the “Latest” page, but acknowledges it as a bug. The issue has been assigned to vinothkannans and is likely related to a previous bug fix regarding filter clearing. The issue has since been fixed in this commit.
I can repro this, but it’s fairly new. I have a self-install site currently running v2.3.0.beta5 +5 where this doesn’t happen. It seems to have been added somewhere in this set of commits.
A second click of the back button will go back to latest, but this is definitely a bug.