<p>I don't get it neither. The home location feature was added on 26 Apr 2007 without zoom: <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/60a294c40e341af16fa2eac6de5df2b0917a74be" class="commit-link"><tt>60a294c</tt></a></p>
<p>Then "home_zoom" was added to the database on 1 May 2007 but it seems it was never really used: <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/c9ffb0e45c8960d27cb42550b960d7434acdcc1f" class="commit-link"><tt>c9ffb0e</tt></a></p>

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