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📣 tmnvix

Is there a good reason many product docs and blogs lack homepage links?


I seem to come across this a lot. I'll be assessing some product or service and follow a link to the documentation page, only to find there is no obvious way to get back to the actual product page to check pricing, etc. The same thing when I end up on a product's blog.

Here's an example:

https://sourcegraph.com/docs

Where's the link back to https://sourcegraph.com/ ? Is this intentional?

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Some of it may be attributable to divisions within the company, such as between the folks during marketing/sales versus engineering/support generating docs and needing a place to put them. The organizational split becomes reflected in the tech output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

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Drives me mad, glad to see im not the only one.