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Comment by tylfin | Hacker News Reader

Do Google Doc features really impact the community enough warrant a post?

Just seems like marketing to me.

The cool thing about HN is that, by its very nature, any post that gets voted to the front page is warranted.

Given that the mods can alter the rank of a post artificially, and do so probably often, this statement holds no weight.

It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.

Adding weight to a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Removing weight from a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753

Please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.

You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.

On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.

Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users.

Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.

Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.

Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098

True, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?

For those of us who work in Docs on a daily basis, it sure does.

Same could be said about Office, yet I don't see posts about minor stuff like this for it.

Maybe people that work in Office all the time don't visit HN or the ones that do don't bother to submit articles.

Useful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).

The features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.

I don’t think I need to expound on why one shouldn’t rely on Google Docs-specific features for business processes.

Will the feature you need last longer than Wave? Or Inbox? Will you get a shutdown notice as bad as that for the Google+ API?

Maybe? But what's the average life expectancy of a particular workflow? As long as the feature outlives my workflow, I'm a happy camper.

I can’t speak to workflow longevity. My assumption, based on enterprise work experience, is that corporations using Office 365 and MS Flow are going to prefer that workflow over Google Docs (and they’re probably already federated to Azure AD, making access control easy peasy).

People want to derisk what they deliver, and want to keep their jobs. Microsoft delivers on that, Google does not. This isn’t about emotion, it’s about pragmatism.

No doubt there are enduring legacy effects of enterprise Office use. There's a very long tail there. However, I think Google is approaching this from the End User standpoint. They're making it possible for people with just a little tech skill to start making magical things, no engineer required. The paradigm is shifting as we speak.

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