Dear Team,
It's quite clear that there is no information about current location when you visit a subforum. For example, when visiting "General Help" subforum (user asks: is this KDE help, or what?), No mention of Kexi Forum within the page. The same for the "News & Discussion" forum (user asks - what news?).
Breadcrumb would be helpful but I know you have added the pull-up list on the bottom (still, IMHO not expose the hierarchy for untrained eye).

To solve the issue, either usability of the UI would be improved (ideal case) or I'd like to ask for rename of the forum to Kexi Help, and Kexi News & Discussion, respectively.

Thanks for your hard work!

Forums have been renamed as "Kexi News & Discussion" and "Kexi Help".

Some time ago I was using Opera in Turbo mode, which caused scripts on forum.kde.org (and some other sites) to not work. Due to this, I did not had access to that fancy pull-up navigation bar on bottom of screen (it was actually on bottom of page, where HTML is).

Anyway, enough of my personal story. I have created little JS snippet that adds breadcrumb navigation where it belongs - at top of page, above header with subforum/topic name. It works nice for topics, a little worse for subforums (you will get forum name duplicated).

Of course, since this is client-side, it will work only for you and not for other users. You also have to use "decent" browser (they started to support querySelector around 2010 or something) that supports userscripts (Greasemonkey).
Code:

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// ==UserScript==
// @name KDE community forums navigation bar
// @author Minio
// @version 0.1
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
   document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
      var breadcrumbs = document.getElementById('footer-breadcrumbs').getElementsByTagName('li');
      var topictitle = document.querySelector('h2.topic-title') || document.querySelector('h2#pageheader');
      var ul = document.createElement('ul');
      ul.setAttribute('id', 'topic-title-breadcrumb-nav');
      ul.style.marginLeft = '0';
      for (i=0; i<breadcrumbs.length; i++) {
         if (i != 0) {
            ul.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' » '));
         }
         var clone = breadcrumbs[i].cloneNode(true);
         clone.style.display = 'inline';
         ul.appendChild(clone);
      }
      topictitle.parentNode.insertBefore(ul, topictitle);
   }, false);
}) ();

The kexi subforums aren't the only ones that suffer from the same ambiguity, there's also the Amarok subforums (General Discussion, Help, Development, Usability, Artwork), the Krita subforums (News & Discussion, General Help, Extensions), among others (I think most of the application-specific subforums are similarly named)
It would appear that these subforums were named expecting to be displayed along with the "forum path" that would contain the rest of the context.
This is also a problem when using the View ... Posts filters where the display only shows the subforum that the topic is in and the only ways to determine which forum that subforum belongs to are to guess based on the title of the topic or to open the thread and look at the pull-up list.

All forums should now be renamed according to their context, so the navigation on bottom should be more helpful now, as well as the view posts filter.

Cool, thanks a lot.