>We are excited to announce Penrose 3.0! We've added many exciting diagrams to our collection, reworked our core API, and improved support for more complex geometric queries... among many other things!
For the future, here is how you can find out yourself:
Click on the element in the top-left corner and it usually brings you to the landing page. That's the introduction page for most visitors so probably contains useful information if you visit a change log/release page but don't know what the project is.
This is attacking the problem in the wrong place. There are a relatively small number of writers of update announcements but a large number of readers. The readers have relatively low motivation to deeply investigate any one announced product. The product announcers generally have significant motivation to get the right readers to check out the product. So the correct solution here is for writers to realize that they need to address not just current users, but to spare a thought for the much, much, much larger number of people who are not yet familiar with the product. Even better, that's exactly what the writer did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748426
Thanks for confirming that I’m not crazy. I click on a lot of these version announcements and I always feel like getting to the “what even is this” is surprisingly hard.
4. Can’t edit url in in-app browser, so click to open in safari
5. Click to open url bar
6. Figure out what the home address likely is, mostly by guessing
7. Scan past giant hero to find an actual “about page”, maybe this is obvious maybe it isn’t
8. Actually get info I want
9. Close tab
10. Close safari
11. Open HN app again
12. Read release notes with actual context
If you can’t see how that is an annoyingly laborious process, easily resolved with a simple link in the opening paragraph, maybe logic isn’t for you. Not even being ironic.
Probably because your assertion doesn’t mesh with reality.
You’re pretending that there is some imaginary standard about how websites must work, we’re saying our personal experiences do not match what you’re asserting as a universal truth.
Yeah, this site isn’t bad; the comment I was initially responding to was more a general commentary on a trend that admittedly doesn’t really apply here.
It’d still be nice to get a summary “about” link but at least you can go right home.
Usually clicking the “logo” in the top left or center brings you to the “homepage” or “landing page”, not a blog/forum/help page. Websites have worked like this for decades.
Also, this is an announcement for an update. Not an announcement for a completely new product launch.
Cool! What is Penrose?