Hey everyone. I apologize for the lack of updates, but unfortunately work has gotten busy for me so I don't spend (as much) time on reddit these days.

I wanted to get some quick feedback from the community based on some recent observations, and also to get comments on anything I've overlooked. Specifically, how are the weekly threads doing?

You can find our last discussion about it here.

Here's my take on the current state of weekly topics:

1. Career Wednesday is doing fairly well, meaning most top-level questions get some sort of helpful reply, and followup replies. The thread doesn't seem to interfere with /r/engineering's Monday career/hiring threads, and probably helps users that miss it.

2. Failure Friday does exceedingly well on some days, with some great stories showing up occasionally... and other times not much. But it seems to be doing its job of letting people blow off some steam after a long work week, so it'll stay for sure.

3. Speaking of failures, Sci-Friday seems to do consistently poorly so I'm thinking of taking it off the rotation, and make Failure Friday happen every week.

If there's a weekly topic you'd like to see, or if you have any general feedback/suggestions, please comment!

Other updates:

• I want to thank everyone that signed up for the list of engineers willing to be interviewed... over 140 users volunteered to be on it! Which is a lot more than the old list, which only had about 84 users. You guys are awesome!

• Finally, I'm sorry to report that not much progress has been made on AMAs. If you guys have any suggestions, they're certainly welcome so we can get the ball rolling. The communities of /r/science, /r/AskScience, and /r/AskHistorians all have good models for organizing these, and we will reach out to them for ideas.