diff --git a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
index 28afe1d6c..bf84042ea 100644
--- a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
+++ b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
@@ -908,10 +908,13 @@ class ApiController(RedditController):
 
         if not res.error:
             #assume sr existed, or was just built
-            clear_memo('subreddit._by_domain', Subreddit, _force_unicode(sr.domain))
+            clear_memo('subreddit._by_domain', 
+                       Subreddit, _force_unicode(sr.domain))
             for k, v in kw.iteritems():
                 setattr(sr, k, v)
             sr._commit()
+            clear_memo('subreddit._by_domain', 
+                       Subreddit, _force_unicode(sr.domain))
 
             # flag search indexer that something has changed
             tc.changed(sr)
diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/menus.py b/r2/r2/lib/menus.py
index f5386967b..4735b2983 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/menus.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/menus.py
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ class SimpleGetMenu(NavMenu):
     
     def __init__(self, **kw):
         kw['default'] = kw.get('default', self.default)
+        kw['base_path'] = kw.get('base_path') or request.path
         buttons = [NavButton(self.make_title(n), n, opt = self.get_param)
                    for n in self.options]
         NavMenu.__init__(self, buttons, type = self.type, **kw)