Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/zoom-transforms-hype-into-huge-jump-in-sales-customers

by baylearn • 6 years ago

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baylearn3• 6 years ago

During a conference call, Eric Yuan said: “Free users for sure we don’t want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose.” (From the article)

photonios• 6 years ago

No paywall URL: http://archive.is/R84zx

treelovinhippie2• 6 years ago

Nice work on censoring the original title HN mods ಠ_ಠ

You asshats completely altered the sentiment of the post. Original title had to do with Zoom CEO saying they are not encrypting calls on free plans so they can more easily work with the FBI.

Does the mod who made that change happen to own stock in Zoom?

gjs278• 6 years ago

haha yes this title change is hilarious. best move the mods have ever made here imo. hopefully they can pointlessly detach and shift things around now and make it look like we praised zoom.

dang4• 6 years ago

The original title was the title of the article, and the submitter editorialized it egregiously, breaking the site guidelines in the process. "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is an extremely well-established rule on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... There are social news sites where the submission title is a sort of mini art form, allowing submitters to frame the article in the most sensational way. HN has never been like that.

baylearn3• 6 years ago

And only that part of the story would be of interest to the HN community. That was the reason I used that title.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this story slide off the front page real soon.

dang4• 6 years ago

Edit: I see your point, because that's literally the only interesting thing about the article.

It turns out that the author of the article thinks so too, because he tweeted https://twitter.com/nicoagrant/status/1268020841054269440. Not only that, but that another user submitted that to HN an hour before you posted the Bloomberg article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23399924. It seems like the fairest solution is to merge the threads and let the other submission be the primary thread. If we had karma-sharing, we'd share the karma, but we don't yet—sorry.

Original comment below, but I'd probably have written it differently now. This was really a borderline case, where the rule in the guidelines doesn't help that much.

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There's a straightforward solution to this problem: you should have used the original title, as the site guidelines ask, and then posted a comment explaining what you thought was important about the article.

Titles are by far the strongest influence on threads, and being the first to submit an article on HN confers no special rights to frame the content for everybody else. Posting an initial comment is the obvious fix, because then your view is on a level playing field with everbody else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Edit: Actually, I'm sympathetic to the predicament here, because the bulk of this article is namby-pamby "Zoom is growing" stuff that isn't interesting. But a single sentence at the end of such an article isn't enough to make a good HN submission. In that case what you should have done instead was post some other article that goes in-depth into the important issue. If there's no such other article, then maybe the issue isn't that important. Or, if you're the first to notice how important it is, then you could write something about how important it is and post that instead.

murat131• 6 years ago

Old title: CEO says free calls on Zoom are not encrypted

New title: Business is booming

dang4• 6 years ago

We've moved most comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23399924, which was posted earlier and is specifically about the encryption-or-lack-thereof issue.

The submitted title on this submission was "Zoom’s CEO says he won’t encrypt free calls so Zoom can work more with the FBI", but we reverted it to the original title in accordance with the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). There's more about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23400869.

ykevinator• 6 years ago

Why is zoom succeeding? Its truly a mystery to me. Why don't people just use meet or teams, which are free?

steviedotboston• 6 years ago

Zoom and Meet have similar time limits. Teams requires a Microsoft account.

Zoom is popular because its very easy to use and runs well. My work uses both Zoom and Meet and the connection quality is noticeably better in Zoom.

Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers

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