[tsuujin]

Thanks 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]

If editing the url bar to go to the homepage is “surprisingly hard”, maybe computing isn’t for you. Not even being ironic.

[tsuujin]

Mobile 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]

Did OP update the site or something? Clicking the logo on mobile redirects to the home/landing page as one would expect from a website.

[wodenokoto]

We 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]

> 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]

Not sure why I got downvoted. Two people literally denied how websites work in order to prove their points.

[tsuujin]

Yeah, 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]

And you can do that without agreeing with someone who is blatantly lying about how websites work in general

[chrisco255]

Nobody 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.

[troupo]

It 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]

You know what they say: focus on yourself.