I imagine most frequent users have a direct bookmark to the forums.
My link takes me to the-digital-picture.com homepage, so I noticed the change a while back in the site navigation menu.

It does not affect me, but today I was thinking it would make it hard for people not familiar with the site to find the forums.
With the forums link buried in the drop down menu new visitors may not even be aware that there are forums. Just a suggestion but consider placing the forums in the regular navigation bar again.

Cheers.