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Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by eat_veggies »

antoangelino wrote: post #9
tyingq wrote: post #4

It mentions "they have to signup with their work email" , so there's some notion of the page data being private. I'm curious how well protected it really is. Also, is the first email from domain X to sign up the default admin for that domain? How do you resolve disputes?

Hi, Antonio from Sametab. You need to signup w/ Google or validate your working email before being able to read the announcements. This security rule is enforced into the database (it's Firebase Firestore). > I'm curious how well protected it really is. Feel free to ask questions! > Also, is the first email from domain X to sign up the default admin for that domain? The first one becomes the admin. We already impleme…

Are you able to defend against this type of thing?: https://medium.com/intigriti/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-compan...

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by antoangelino »

eat_veggies wrote: post #11
antoangelino wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Antonio from Sametab. You need to signup w/ Google or validate your working email before being able to read the announcements. This security rule is enforced into the database (it's Firebase Firestore). > I'm curious how well protected it really is. Feel free to ask questions! > Also, is the first email from domain X to sign up the default admin for that domain? The first one becomes the admin. We already impleme…

Are you able to defend against this type of thing?: https://medium.com/intigriti/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-compan...

Interesting article, thanks for the link! If a company uses its main domain in the same way gitlab does, SSO is the only way to avoid security flaws. We do not support SSO now, but implementing it is feasible. Feel free to send us an email if you have a company IdP and you want to use Sametab.

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by readhn »

A lot of people ignore their work announcements because "they dont really care" about their jobs/companies (except for the paycheck to cover health/mortgage).. Why should an employee be fully engaged at work when she/he is just a "disposable" part of a machine and can be let go at any time (and should be ok with it because this is how it always was done)?

Ummm they really think company wide emails (that are often pushed to personal cell phones) are not enough? Now lets see it in the browser tab as well? Really? Whats next? Automatically engraved announcements on coworkers foreheads?

The problem is NOT that people "dont have an opportunity to see the announcements" - the problem is that people are not really interested in their jobs. Make job interesting to an employee and truly care about an employee (prove it by action) then people will be more engaged at work!

"Of the country’s approximately 100 million full-time employees, 51 percent aren’t engaged at work -- meaning they feel no real connection to their jobs, and thus they tend to do the bare minimum...Another 16 percent are “actively disengaged” ... feel their needs aren’t being met at work etc."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-so-many-americans-hate-thei...

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by readhn »

pimlottc wrote: post #10
edent wrote: post #6

Homepage. You've re-invented the homepage. I've worked in companies where the default homepage was the announcements feed on the Intranet. Didn't make people actually read them though!

Basically, yeah. The hard part is not getting information in front of people, it’s keeping it brief and well-managed enough so that people read it.

the problem is that people dont want to read these announcements. they mostly dont care. over 50% of working professionals are not satisfied with their jobs. why should they care about reading stupid company "announcements"?

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by nathan_f77 »

That's a great idea!

Some feedback: It would be great if this could be used as a widget on top of an existing new tab page. I really like https://tabliss.io, which shows the time, weather, and a nice photo from unsplash. If I was working somewhere that used this for company announcements, I would prefer to continue using tabliss, and show company announcements as a small widget on the bottom right.

But yeah, I like using the new tab page as a dashboard for this kind of thing. Email and slack notifications are too disruptive, and this is more like a notice board where you can casually glance at it when you have some time.

EDIT: Tabliss supports custom CSS and JS, so I could add this myself. Or could even contribute an official widget, because it's open source: https://github.com/joelshepherd/tabliss

EDIT 2: This is unrelated, but I just saw that Tabliss added a "literature clock" widget. That's really cool! Here's my new tab: https://imgur.com/gallery/99hL1Ei

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by isostatic »

readhn wrote: post #16
pimlottc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, yeah. The hard part is not getting information in front of people, it’s keeping it brief and well-managed enough so that people read it.

the problem is that people dont want to read these announcements. they mostly dont care. over 50% of working professionals are not satisfied with their jobs. why should they care about reading stupid company "announcements"?

The problem with most company home pages is they're designed by people who think MSN or Yahoo's design is good.

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by kevinjoling »

edent wrote: post #6

Homepage. You've re-invented the homepage. I've worked in companies where the default homepage was the announcements feed on the Intranet. Didn't make people actually read them though!

A homepage which you will see every time you open a new tab, instead of once a day.

I think it's pretty useful and will make the chance of people actually reading them a lot higher, right?

Re: Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

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Post by vthallam »

kevinjoling wrote: post #19
edent wrote: post #6

Homepage. You've re-invented the homepage. I've worked in companies where the default homepage was the announcements feed on the Intranet. Didn't make people actually read them though!

A homepage which you will see every time you open a new tab, instead of once a day. I think it's pretty useful and will make the chance of people actually reading them a lot higher, right?

wait homepage is something you see on every new tab, isn't it?
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