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Re:Dear Instagram by uptown on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:23AM (#8097282)
Clickable link to the Bolt homepage: https://bolt.co/

I always find it annoying when the blog company logo doesn't bring you back to the company's homepage.

Re:Dear Instagram by scott_s on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:24AM (#8097295)
Me too, but this one does: the far right link. I had to click most of the links on the top to figure that out, though.
Re:Dear Instagram by uptown on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:31AM (#8097346)
Ah - good call. I totally missed that link.
Re:Dear Instagram by mikejarema on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:05PM (#8097576)
Me too, so what is best practice?

I put together a simple layout for my company's blog and made this link very explicit specific, see: http://blog.vidoyen.com

Is that more in line with a blog reader would generally expect? I'm genuinely curious, because I've seen variants of this comment time and time again on HN.

Re:Dear Instagram by uptown on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:19PM (#8097682)
My personal preference is for the top-left logo to always bring a user back to the domain's top-level ignoring any sub-domains, though I'm not sure that could be considered best-practice.

This approach works for me though, because I find most company-blogs to have a much lower volume of published content than a website whose primary function is that of a blog. In most cases, I've wound up on the site from a direct-link to whatever blog post I'm reading. If what I've read in that post is interesting, I'm probably going to want to check out the product or service they're selling before reading any more of their company blog.

Re:Dear Instagram by quaunaut on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:13PM (#8097641)
Your site would actually make it pretty easy:

Have the logo redirect to your homepage. Have the 'Blog' go to the blog feed.

Logos that don't go to the homepage drive me batty.

Re:Dear Instagram by Alupis on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:05PM (#8097575)
I think we can surmise Instagram is not going to change the name of their new product just because this company wrote a blog post.

They will need to compel Instagram into doing so.