From the home page, if you instead click on the "Forums" tab of the main FT navigation bar (at the top left) you'll get a list that makes it easy to get to the Community section. I agree this should be made more obvious though.

Also I'm sure the Subscribe to Forum feature that sets up your MyFlyerTalk would help too. I'm busy setting mine up now to see if I like how that works. So far I don't think there's any downside to doing it that way, except that you *really* ignore all those other forums that you didn't add to your subscription list (even more than before).