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Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

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Post by rglover »

vlokshin wrote: post #16

While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this. A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav. We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of…

Need design help? Check out what we helped Userfox (s11) put together for their blog: http://wellroundedgent.com/project/userfox/

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#42

Post by ghiculescu »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #25
ghiculescu wrote: post #21

Annoyingly, the block he mentions in step 4 ({block:IfLogoInTopBar}) isn't actually present in the default tumblr theme. I ended up doing something similar near {block:IfShowBlogTitle}

Thanks. Updated the post to include this.

Cool, thanks.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#44

Post by kirillzubovsky »

jandy wrote: post #34
kirillzubovsky wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get your sarcasm. Where would you suppose clicking on my face should have led you? It's the Medium blogging engine and it is in their interest to have you follow from one of my posts to others, then to my collections, then to collections of others. Pretty obvious flow of things.

This implies that the reader should understand the behaviour of whatever particular blogging engine/platform the author is using. How is understanding that clicking on a face in medium does one thing any different than understanding that clicking on the header in a tumblr does something else?

But it doesn't. When you click on my head on Medium, I don't expect you to land on my home page , or my company page, or any other page that is mine on the internet. As far as Medium and readers are concerned, my Medium profile is your destination (https://medium.com/@kirillzubovsky). On there you see all my posts and all the social information that I provided, and you can further explore the service and/or my links if you choose to.

The equivalent of a Tumblr logo on Medium would be their "M" logo. When you click that, you end up on their front page, and not on my profile, which is what you should expect.

You are partially correct, this implies that the user understands the basic behavior of the web and expects my photo to lead to one place and "M" to another.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#46

Post by kirillzubovsky »

canibanoglu wrote: post #36

I agree with your point and find it quite disturbing myself. What punched me in my face in your article was that you asked people to comment on HN if they agreed. I quite honestly don't understand the reasoning behind this. Granted, I'm a new member on HN but asking for comments just for the sake of comments seems like broken Facebook "like"s.

Perhaps I phrased that incorrectly. Since Medium does not have a commenting system, I asked folks to leave a comment here, if they had one. Indeed, I was asking for everyone's comment, not just the ones that agreed with me. Thanks for pointing it out. Will remember to watch it next time.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#47

Post by jameshsi »

guptaneil wrote: post #35

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 des…

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

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#48

Post by jandy »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #44
jandy wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This implies that the reader should understand the behaviour of whatever particular blogging engine/platform the author is using. How is understanding that clicking on a face in medium does one thing any different than understanding that clicking on the header in a tumblr does something else?

But it doesn't. When you click on my head on Medium, I don't expect you to land on my home page , or my company page, or any other page that is mine on the internet. As far as Medium and readers are concerned, my Medium profile is your destination ( https://medium.com/@kirillzubovsky ). On there you see all my posts and all the social information that I provided, and you can further explore the service and/or my link…

Lets not conflate this with the M logo, which wasn't my point (I don't think either of us would expect the Tumblr logo to take you anywhere other than Tumblr).

The point, correct me if I'm wrong, of your post was that a company's logo on their Tumblr blog should go to their own website and not to the root of their Tumblr blog. Yet, because your blog is on Medium it's ok that none of the titles go to your homepage?

I want to find out more about you. I click on your picture, it takes me to a profile on Medium, which links to your about.me profile and your twitter profile (and mentions a twitter handle for Scoutize). I then have to click through those to find actual links to your personal blog and Scoutize. Why are you ok with this interaction but it's not cool for a company to do it with Tumblr?

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#49

Post by minouye »

vlokshin wrote: post #16

While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this. A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav. We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of…

Just a heads up that this is what your blog looks like in mobile Safari:

http://imgur.com/HpIUKbL

Posting this mainly because I hadn't realized how much Tumblr customizes their mobile experience--not sure what a good solution to this is if a sizable percentage of your readers are on iOS.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#50

Post by vlokshin »

minouye wrote: post #49
vlokshin wrote: post #16

While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this. A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav. We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of…

Just a heads up that this is what your blog looks like in mobile Safari: http://imgur.com/HpIUKbL Posting this mainly because I hadn't realized how much Tumblr customizes their mobile experience--not sure what a good solution to this is if a sizable percentage of your readers are on iOS.

Thanks! I know tumlr has its own iPhone version that overrides default (if you leave it as so in settings), but we hadn't given much thought to customizing it.

A surprisingly low amount (5%) of our readers are on iOS, but maybe it's in part because of the experience.

I also didn't realize how big of a crowd was interested in even the simplest tumblr blog customization, judging by how long this post sat in the #1 spot on HN.

Perhaps we'll customize our mobile tumblr as well, and do a nice little write-up on how to customize both to match your "real" site :)

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