Similar problem. I can only find "featured discussions" or my "favorites". I put "forums" in the search bar and that got me to at least "featured home discussions" and "featured garden discussions". I don't really want "featured". I want all. It should be simple, but searching gardenweb/houzz has been a nightmare.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/featured-home-discussions

Go to any forum and directly to the left of the forum name you will see "Your Topics" and "Edit". Click on "Edit" and you will find the full list.

Thats a good tip. Although what a bizarre implementation on their part!!!

I think what is happening is that they have blurred the line between Forum (a/k/a Topics) and Discussions. All that really exists is discussions with keywords. Forums don't really exist anymore. It is all just keyword searches. It would be nice if the search bar had a way to search for text strings OR keywords.

For example if I search for "clematis" (because I know there is a Clematis "forum"), I come up with discussions that have "clematis" in the subject line of all discussions. Only the 4th discussion down shows me the Clematis forum is listed in the list of keywords for that discussion.

I see the problem is they have no way to represent a "forum" in the search results. So that's why they should have a separate way to search for just forums/keywords.

(former software designer frustrated by bad software design)

I just posted a similar question! Thank you for the confirmation that this is not obvious or easy!