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For the future, here is how you can find out yourself: Click on the element in the top-left corner and it usually brings you to the landing page. That's the in
by capableweb 3y ago
For the future, here is how you can find out yourself:
Click on the element in the top-left corner and it usually brings you to the landing page. That's the introduction page for most visitors so probably contains useful information if you visit a change log/release page but don't know what the project is.
- wodenokoto 3y agoNo, that usually brings you to the front of the blog / forum / help page (depending on where you already are) It can be surprisingly difficult to move from blog to product page.
- tsuujin 3y agoThanks for confirming that I’m not crazy. I click on a lot of these version announcements and I always feel like getting to the “what even is this” is surprisingly hard.
- xk_id 3y agoIf editing the url bar to go to the homepage is “surprisingly hard”, maybe computing isn’t for you. Not even being ironic.
- troupo 3y agoIt is enough of a friction on mobile for me to very rarely do that. However, if you can't make the logo of your product go to the landing page, then computing is definitely not for you. Also not being ironic.
- xk_id 3y agoYou know what they say: focus on yourself.
- chrisco255 3y agoNobody has time to do research on every article they read in a day. There's no excuse for not giving a short description in an announcement.
- tsuujin 3y agoMobile workflow: 1. Click HN link 2. See announcement, want product details 3. Click on logo… goes to blog homepage 4. Can’t edit url in in-app browser, so click to open in safari 5. Click to open url bar 6. Figure out what the home address likely is, mostly by guessing 7. Scan past giant hero to find an actual “about page”, maybe this is obvious maybe it isn’t 8. Actually get info I want 9. Close tab 10. Close safari 11. Open HN app again 12. Read release notes with actual context If you can’t see how that is an annoyingly laborious process, easily resolved with a simple link in the opening paragraph, maybe logic isn’t for you. Not even being ironic.
- bluepod4 3y agoDid OP update the site or something? Clicking the logo on mobile redirects to the home/landing page as one would expect from a website.
- tsuujin 3y agoYeah, this site isn’t bad; the comment I was initially responding to was more a general commentary on a trend that admittedly doesn’t really apply here. It’d still be nice to get a summary “about” link but at least you can go right home.
- bluepod4 3y agoAnd you can do that without agreeing with someone who is blatantly lying about how websites work in general
- wodenokoto 3y agoWe are talking in general. TFA behaves well, but I can understand if some users has learned to simply stop clicking the logo to get to the product page
- bluepod4 3y ago> Clicking the logo in the top left usually leads to a blog or forum or help page That’s not speaking in general. That’s called lying to prove a point.
- bluepod4 3y agoUsually clicking the “logo” in the top left or center brings you to the “homepage” or “landing page”, not a blog/forum/help page. Websites have worked like this for decades. Also, this is an announcement for an update. Not an announcement for a completely new product launch.
- wpietri 3y agoThis is attacking the problem in the wrong place. There are a relatively small number of writers of update announcements but a large number of readers. The readers have relatively low motivation to deeply investigate any one announced product. The product announcers generally have significant motivation to get the right readers to check out the product. So the correct solution here is for writers to realize that they need to address not just current users, but to spare a thought for the much, much, much larger number of people who are not yet familiar with the product. Even better, that's exactly what the writer did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748426