Hey everyone, I hope you all had a happy holiday and new year's!

This announcement will cover a lot of things I've talked about over the past few months.

Old stuff first. You may notice that the subreddit style (if you have it enabled) has been updated. Not many people responded to the strawpoll so we just decided to go ahead with it. We're using /r/Minimaluminiumalism (Style B) if you're interested in using it for your subreddit. There are a few known issues such as legacy search not displaying correctly, so if you encounter any visual bugs as you use the new style, please message us.

automoderator-schedule has received a long-needed update to make the flair application, list of engineers willing to be interviewed, and engineers' experience threads get posted on a recurring basis. Moving forward, the schedule of these posts will be:

If you've expressed an interest in applying for contributor flair in the past, look out for the new thread tomorrow morning.

Finally, we will make an announcement soon to take on some new moderators. We've been short-staffed for a while as old mods retired, and we need a fresh set of ideas for things to deploy in 2017 to improve the subreddit.

New stuff: This is still very preliminary, but we may soon begin talks with /u/raoulduke25 and the other mods of /r/engineering to streamline the recurring threads of both subreddits per this discussion. If both mod teams decide to follow through, I'm hoping to expand the cooperative to include some of the other larger engineering subreddits like /r/EngineeringStudents, /r/AskElectronics, and /r/civilengineering. There is currently no "engineering network" of subreddits, and creating one would benefit all of our readers.

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment below — we're very interested in hearing your ideas and criticisms of how things are going so far so that we can continue to improve AskEngineers.

Cheers!