# Is it appropriate to make a product announcement in "Announcements"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [September 25, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035 "2015-09-25T16:40:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035/1 "2015-09-25T16:40:42Z")

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Before I get labeled a spammer, I wanted to ask this question :). Would it be an appropriatte use of this forum to announce that we have a product that supports Elasticsearch. In particular, I would like to announce that our product Quepid now supports Elasticsearch. I would do this under "Announcements."

I have seen in other open source projects, namely Solr, there's a fairly laissez faire attitude here. For example, [this post](http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/ANN-Lucidworks-Fusion-1-0-0-td4160427.html) on the Solr mailing list announcing their Fusion product.

What's the guidance here?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035/2 "2015-09-25T22:36:16Z")

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Hey Doug,

First off, thanks for checking about this!

While things do tend to be pretty _laissez-faire_ around here too, we try to keep the posts in the Announcements category to announcements about Elastic projects and plugins.

There is another category named [Ecosystem](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/ecosystem) that seems like a better fit. May I suggest posting over there?

Thanks,

Shaunak

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035/3 "2015-09-25T23:06:14Z")

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I've made a few minor edits in the section "about" posts to help clarify 🙂

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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035/4 "2015-09-26T00:16:40Z")

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Thanks everyone!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-appropriate-to-make-a-product-announcement-in-announcements/30035/5 "2017-07-06T13:47:12Z")

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