[dang]

We phased out this regular thread a few months ago because most people were cross-posting between it and "Who Wants to Be Hired" (or, if they were seeking a freelancer, "Who Is Hiring").

I appreciate that you and at least a few other users have found these freelancer threads valuable and, if I can find a few minutes to look into it more closely, will consider restoring them. I'd prefer to have a solution to the cross-posting problem before doing that.

As for the latter: I've moved a few comments that were posted here to the appropriate threads, but left the ones that had already been cross-posted and marked them as [dupe].

[rossdavidh]

So, it seems like a "FREELANCE" or "OPEN TO FREELANCE" or etc. keyword, on the regular "who is hiring" and "who wants to be hired", would not be too difficult for people to use and understand.

[harlanji]

Yes, please.

I only post in Freelancer but sometimes I'm OPEN TO GOLDEN HANDCUFFS / REALLY REALLY GOOD W-2 :).

[jon_north]

As I noted before, since people are free to post what they like on HN, there is no reason for the community not to bring it back if desired.

Please don't moderate a thread you didn't post when nothing offensive is being posted. It's unnecessary and rude.

[jon_north]

n.b. if the original whoishiring thread comes back, I will certainly quit posting this alternative!

[jon_north]

as a further note, people continue to post to this thread because they want to. Maybe it's worth taking a hint and letting things happen instead of obsessively needing to control them, hm?

[lowercased]

Please bring this back as a separate feature.