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

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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?

Depends on your browser. Safari for example never shows you the 'homepage' unless you specifically navigate to it.

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

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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?

Nope, for Chrome you have to use an extension, and Firefox needs an extension or some about:config changes.

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

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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 pus…

Even if 10% of employees like their jobs, that's still a market of 10 million people. If somehow this extension could reach them all and bring 1 cent a month per user to it's creator, that's still 1M$ a year for what's probably a week-end project. Not too bad.

And if it end up reaching 1% of this market that's still 10k$ a year.

So, hey, good job doing this !

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

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post #22

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

Nope, for Chrome you have to use an extension, and Firefox needs an extension or some about:config changes.

You can set the new tab page url with the ADMX templates and set the homepage button to be the newTab page - https://getadmx.com/?Category=Chrome&Policy=Google.Policies....

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

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or slack channel, or email.

Yea I prefer email for these things, so I can filter it appropriately (e.g. only show when I am interested) and refer to past announcements. You cannot do either of those, especially the second, easily with a browser tab thing or homepage.

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

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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?

But it requires configuring a plugin in the browser. And every single browser has a possibility to show a webpage of your choice, or a blank page, on every new tab (?)

Edit: wait what browsers don't do this anymore? I can set my firefox to show the page I want for a new window but for a new tab I just get to choose between the default and blank. When did this break? I'm sure this worked last time I tried (which was probably pre 2000)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

But it requires configuring a plugin in the browser. And every single browser has a possibility to show a webpage of your choice, or a blank page, on every new tab (?) Edit: wait what browsers don't do this anymore? I can set my firefox to show the page I want for a new window but for a new tab I just get to choose between the default and blank. When did this break? I'm sure this worked last time I tried (which was p…

I'm not sure whether it was the desire of browser manufacturers to claim it as prime ad space, or a longstanding problem with exploitative third party apps resetting the homepage, but they've all phased it out.

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

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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!

This reminds me of the time my former company set a policy on everyone's computers locking the home page to the (largely useless and slow-to-load) intranet site. I then wrote a Safari extension [1] out of spite that posted to the site every time I opened a new tab. (If they want engagement, I'll give it to them!)

[1] https://github.com/philwebster/EngageMe

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

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post #22

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

Nope, for Chrome you have to use an extension, and Firefox needs an extension or some about:config changes.

When did that change for chrome? I remember being able to set a url for new tabs right in settings.

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

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There is an extra danger with this (we built this at my previous company, and then deleted it), where users end up not seeing the messages anymore, but when they go to internet cafes / planes / public areas they leak very critical information (typically quarterly goals and how we're doing).

Leads to really bad media leaks.

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