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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 12 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 4.443s | source | bottom
1. easytiger ◴[15 Jul 20 09:06 UTC] No.23842836[source]▶
Press release pro tip: sidle in what the company or app does very early in. Verging on all of the releases I read on HN don't do this but are for companies I've not heard of. So you leave knowing almost nothing about the company
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2. MrDresden ◴[15 Jul 20 09:31 UTC] No.23842980[source]▶
That's a good point. I've noticed larger enterprises doing this with their pr's, which has always struck me as bit silly when it is a house hold name (Oracle, Canonical, VMWare etc) but ofc not everyone would know them. But for smaller vendors this becomes even more important.
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3. phreeza ◴[15 Jul 20 09:39 UTC] No.23843027[source]▶
Household names for a very specific set of households :)
4. rado ◴[15 Jul 20 09:43 UTC] No.23843052[source]▶
Also on a company home/about page.
5. easytiger ◴[15 Jul 20 09:43 UTC] No.23843055[source]▶
Yes indeed its pretty universal for PLCs to do it.

Some examples to demonstrate

[1] ...LexisNexis® CounselLink®, a leading cloud-based enterprise legal management solution for corporate law departments, today announced the release...

[2] ...RecVue, Inc., the fastest growing next generation order-to-cash automation platform, today announced...

etc

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lexisnexis-counsell... [2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/recvue-achieves-soc...

6. Arathorn ◴[15 Jul 20 09:52 UTC] No.23843112[source]▶
oops, excellent point. I've added "For those discovering us for the first time: Element is the flagship secure collaboration app for the decentralised Matrix communication network." as the 2nd main para.
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8. smichel17 ◴[15 Jul 20 10:51 UTC] No.23843486[source]▶
On mobile (galaxy S5, Firefox), the first and last letters of the text in the header image at https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ are cut off, so I just see "wm your conversation".
9. detritus ◴[15 Jul 20 12:20 UTC] No.23844133[source]▶
This is one thing I always loved about The Economist - it didn't matter how obvious an entity might seem, they would always qualify what it is when mentioned in an article, never presuming upon their readers' knowledge, eg. "...Google, an internet search engine, ..."

- ed: typo

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10. easytiger ◴[15 Jul 20 13:45 UTC] No.23845105[source]▶
You have to consider than in 100 years, people may not really widely know what Google was.
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11. jhillyerd ◴[15 Jul 20 15:20 UTC] No.23846439[source]▶
Yes, please. The first couple paragraphs of this PR I thought I was reading about Riot Games renaming themselves.
12. wmf ◴[15 Jul 20 16:45 UTC] No.23847828{3}[source]▶
But the only people reading 100-year-old articles will be historians who can/should track down those references.