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🐛 Footer inconsistencies — X (Twitter) branding and Y Combinator text

Open Rudra2637 opened this issue 1 month ago • 7 comments

🐛 Footer inconsistencies — X (Twitter) branding and Y Combinator text

Description

  1. The footer currently shows “Twitter” next to the X logo, which is inconsistent with the platform’s official rebrand to X.
  2. The text “Backed by Y Combinator” appears as plain, non-clickable text with no hover or link attached.
    Since it represents a partnership or support acknowledgment, it would improve UX and credibility to make it a clickable link to Y Combinator’s official site or the project’s YC page.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Scroll to the website footer.
  2. Observe the Twitter/X text and logo.
  3. Hover over the “Backed by Y Combinator” text — it remains static (no hover or link).

Expected Behavior

  • The footer should show “X” or “X (formerly Twitter)” for accurate branding.
  • The Y Combinator text should be clickable and direct users to the appropriate page.

Actual Behavior

  • Displays “Twitter” instead of “X.”
  • “Backed by Y Combinator” is plain text with no link or hover effect.

Suggested Fix

  • Update the branding to reflect X (formerly Twitter).
  • Wrap “Backed by Y Combinator” in a link tag pointing to:
    👉 https://www.ycombinator.com
    (or the startup’s YC page, if applicable).

Why This Matters

Improves branding accuracy, footer UX, and ensures consistency with modern platform and partner references.

Additional Note

If this issue is approved, please assign it to me so I can work on resolving it.

Rudra2637 avatar Oct 31 '25 18:10 Rudra2637

Good catch @Rudra2637

Since our website isn't open source, I can't assign this to you directly.

However, one of our team mates David handles our website and I'm tagging him (@davidturnbull) so that this does go through.

Just FYI, if you had opened this for the competition, it still counts even though you can't contribute to it.

sumitsaurabh927 avatar Oct 31 '25 19:10 sumitsaurabh927

can i work on this issue?

mannubaveja007 avatar Oct 31 '25 19:10 mannubaveja007

Thank you @sumitsaurabh927 for the clarification and for forwarding this to David. I appreciate you acknowledging the issue and confirming that it still counts toward the competition. Glad to contribute! 🙌

Rudra2637 avatar Oct 31 '25 19:10 Rudra2637

Hey @mannubaveja007 as this website isn't open source as mentioned above, We can't work on this.

Rudra2637 avatar Oct 31 '25 19:10 Rudra2637

Hi! I was interested in working on this issue but noticed the website code isn't in this public repository. Could you clarify if this issue is actionable, or should it be closed?

aman01k avatar Oct 31 '25 22:10 aman01k

yes i observed all the frontend issues listed below , can i work on this issue?

Hiteshpy07 avatar Nov 02 '25 17:11 Hiteshpy07

Guys, just a request, before commenting "Please assign it to me". Kindly read the message given by @sumitsaurabh927 sir stating that the website isn't open sourced, so someone from the internal team will work on this! Thanks!

adityasharmawork avatar Nov 04 '25 04:11 adityasharmawork

Thanks for reporting! This will be handled by the Lingo.dev core team in our separate website repo. We'll close this once it's resolved there.

maxprilutskiy avatar Nov 10 '25 06:11 maxprilutskiy