Definitely nothing fishy in this case. The original whoishiring has been distracted lately, and _whoishiring stepped in to help. It actually made a big difference today.
It also, however, made us realize that it's about time (after what, 6 years maybe) that we wrote the small amount of code to just automate this so people don't have to wonder where the threads are.
the 30 day old account was created and jumped in when the official thread didn't appear on time last month and its thread was more or less promoted to be the official one (the official account didn't create a "who is hiring" thread last month).
Since the official post hasn't appeared I guess this is the same thing again.
It's relevant for two important reasons: we don't want the content split across competing threads, and there needs to be a standard place for people to look for these posts. Currently that is (or was) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring.
Definitely nothing fishy in this case. The original whoishiring has been distracted lately, and _whoishiring stepped in to help. It actually made a big difference today.
It also, however, made us realize that it's about time (after what, 6 years maybe) that we wrote the small amount of code to just automate this so people don't have to wonder where the threads are.