Always show chat and blog link in the top bar [closed]

Question

It's been addressed before, the "chat" link which either shows up or doesn't show up in the top bar is confusing. (hardly surprising)

I suggest the following:

• Always show the "chat" link.
• Always show the "blog" link (when the SE site has a blog).
• Highlight the blog link instead of putting "new" in front of it when there is a new blog post.

Result:

• No more "shifting" GUI parts. (If this were to be a reason for the current design, ironically it does shift now due to the "new" icon.)
• It's always visible whether or not a site has a blog.
• Users aren't surprised. When they use the link once, they can always find it again.

As a side note: the "new" icon in front of the bottom "blog" link doesn't disappear along with the one in the top-bar after clicking on the link.

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To prevent any further "but, you can find the link in so many other places"-answers:

It's not an issue whether it's hard to find. The issue is it's inconsistent and confusing. I learned I was able to find it there, and afterwards it's no longer there ... that's the problem.

Answer 1

I really don't think this is necessary.

Chat is not hard to find. It's always at http://chat.<sitename>.com And there's plenty of other links to it.

As Jeff himself says:

You can also find chat links, at least on any meta, on every question page in the sidebar:

Note that "4 people chatting" is a link to the rooms page, whereas the rooms are.. links to the individual rooms.

And it's at the bottom, as Reno points out:

You will find it on the footer navigation bar thingy.

---- On Chrome/Firefox - hit Ctrl + End to go to the bottom.