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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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I've been running these monthly since 2021. I think it works to tie it to the month, and it's strange to say the month name when you run it on the 21st. I'll move it to the 3rd of each month unless it's the weekend, and then I'll push it to that Monday.

I appreciate that you've been making the case for these threads for a long time! The problem is that they get flagged and downweighted because unofficial monthly regular threads are (informally) not allowed here. Otherwise people try to start too many of them, and it's one of those things that only works well within limits. The solution we hit on with whoishiring (a long time ago) was to make it official, give it bas…

I had no idea, Dan. Thanks for letting me know. I'll stop posting them.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate that you've been making the case for these threads for a long time! The problem is that they get flagged and downweighted because unofficial monthly regular threads are (informally) not allowed here. Otherwise people try to start too many of them, and it's one of those things that only works well within limits. The solution we hit on with whoishiring (a long time ago) was to make it official, give it bas…

I had no idea, Dan. Thanks for letting me know. I'll stop posting them.

If you want to champion the cause, send me an email at hn@ycombinator.com. I don't have a lot of cycles right now but I do think it would be good to add a monthly thread for this!
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