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Comment by mgurlitz | Hacker News Reader

> The big logo-y thing at the top of your blog page? Yes, the one that currently links to your blog? Right, that one. It shouldn't link to your damned blog! Link it to your product's home page instead.

Every time I have to manually cut the /blog/ out of the location bar I wonder how many users were lost by requiring that little bit of extra effort.

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This. I got downvoted the other day for saying that about Kicksend: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4159367

Maybe because it was not on topic but it does get on my nerves.

On a very similar note, if you want people to upvote you on another HN thread, you should really probably link to news.ycombinator.com instead of .org so people like me won't have to sign in again. :)

Curious, had no idea there were (at least) two tlds.

I'd argue that .org is better so people like me won't have to sign in again.

Since you are on the same site already, use a relative url.

Interestingly, it seems that they did change it to go to the homepage.

I just upvoted your other post. This practice is quite annoying. I guess it's understandable on some level but obviously it should be easy to get to a company's home page from its blog.

I make a rough estimate that 50 per cent of the time I do not bother making that extra step.

I think it's like 99% of the time for me.

I tend to think that that is just the default behavior by whatever drop-in blog package they're using. You see this in nearly 110% of phpBB boards, where the corner link brings you to the top page of the webboard.

It's a missed detail, though whether by laziness or incompetence I'm not willing to speculate.

Sometimes it's blog.domain.com. I sometimes don't even bother to cut the subdomain to see the product itself.

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