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Can the submission title be fixed to make more sense within the allowed character count? The article title is "Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack, Has A
by MichaelApproved 7y ago
Can the submission title be fixed to make more sense within the allowed character count?
The article title is "Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack, Has AWS and Google Docs on a 'Discouraged' List"
Suggestion: "Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack, Discourages AWS & Google Docs"
- opencl 7y agoThis title is wrong, they ban the non-enterprise version of Slack and encouorage the use of Teams over the enterprise version. The real change that should happen is changing the link from the Gizmodo article to the Geekwire article it links to that actually contains this information.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoTrue but you can only fit so much info in the title. How would you suggest the post, even the geekwire post, be titled on HN? Even an ellipsis at the end of the current title would make much more sense.
- opencl 7y ago"Microsoft Discourages Employees From Using Slack, AWS & Google Docs" is shorter and seems more accurate because of Slack not actually being banned. The actual bans all appear to be for legitimate compliance reasons rather than "don't use competitors", even Github is banned “for Highly Confidential types of information, specs or code” though they presumably have an on-premise instance of Github they use for that.