Optimizely Acquired by Episerver

Optimizely Acquired by Episerver(blog.optimizely.com)

33 points by rloomba 5 years ago | 3 comments

dang 5 years ago |

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365479, which was posted earlier and points to a third party article rather than a corporate press release.

Corporate press releases are mostly an exemption from HN's original-source rule (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) because they are mostly evasive, unreadable mush. In this case the third-party article says almost nothing, but at least it's readable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

pmiller2 5 years ago | |

@dang, this is a great policy and should be incorporated explicitly into the guidelines, IMO. I would also suggest applying this to scientific articles, given how fluffy university press releases can be, as well.

dang 5 years ago | | |

University press releases tend to be better, although they're clearly promotional. The trouble with most scientific papers is that they're highly specialized and, depending on the field, hard for outsiders to read. In those cases we usually recommend submitting the best third-party article and linking to the paper from the comments.

A similar category is legal rulings, which came up yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24357078