Your problem is you know where everything is. The hard part is putting yourself into the position of someone looking at the site when they don’t have a clue and trying to find their way round.
That’s totally unintuitive! And inaccessible from this page at least. The look and feel of these forums is totally different to the look and feel of the ‘old’ site, and seems like a different site - to me at least. ‘Home’ when I’m in here means where I go when I click on the logo. It never occurred to me that ‘Home’ there was back to the old site. The route to those things I listed doesn’t seem to be at all obvious once you’re in these forums. Even that Home link is at best one click away - if you know where to click.
If you’re going to put the Resources and Hardware links in the user guide at some time in the future, I say they need to go somewhere obvious at least in the short term.