Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

Re:Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it. by guptaneil on Friday February 22, 2013 @08:43PM (#5268125)

I agree with the problem, but disagree with the solution. When I come across an interesting blog post, I also want an obvious way to the blog's homepage to see more posts. It would be equally frustrating if I want to see more posts, and instead end up on some landing page.

While designing my startup's blog[1], I looked at a lot of other startups' blogs and noticed that most of them had the same problem the author describes. My solution was to just put a 2 line description of what we do with a link in the blog header, so it is very easy to get to either location.

1: http://blog.tabuleapp.com

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Re:Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it. by jameshsi on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:45PM (#5268453)

yes! the main header on the Priceonomics blog originally linked our home page, but that left users stranded on blog post pages when they wanted to visit other tumblr posts quickly.

imo a link to your homepage elsewhere is a better solution

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Re:Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it. by ximi on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:41AM (#5268910)

We're doing the same thing at MakeLeaps[1]. The logo (which also says MakeLeaps Blog) links to the blog's homepage and to the right we have a prominent link saying "Back to makeleaps.com".

As the logo and link are the only things in the header this works pretty well for our visitors/users.

1: http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/

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