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by hyperenergy 2332 days ago
It's interesting that many tech/product blogs do not easily link back to the parent site.

For instance, I didn't know what RStudio was, so I have to go to the address bar and remove the blog portion of the subdomain and the trailing url just to find out what the parent site is, instead of a simple link.

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Doh - I filed an issue on our internal tracker to fix this
Thanks for the quick response to this. The "blog that doesn't link back to the main site" might be my biggest pet peeve on the internet today.

"Pet peeve" being a minor but incredibly annoying issue as opposed to a deal-breaker type of issue.

Blog footer also says RStudio, Inc and has 2019 copyright.
I admire your speed at filing issues!

Especially in the tidyverse workshop yesterday.

I first thought it's about R-Studio[1] the recovery software. Then I tried the main page and I had doubts. Only after I hovered over the "Products" it says "RStudio - The premier IDE for R" (ok, it also says something in the page title but that's not fully shown in any current browser, and there's a "RStudio Server Pro - Take control of your R code" on the first page, but I did not make the connection)

[1] https://www.r-studio.com/

That really does annoy me, so often I'll be on blog or support site, and there is no way to get back to the main web page for the service/company.
Looking at you Microsoft Partner center docs... just give me the dashboard!
it's in the sidebar...
It's in the side bar, at the bottom. I agree with the original comment. That's quite poor design. Unless I'm seriously interested, I don't waste time looking at sidebars, let alone the bottoms of them