I'd love to see this thread albeit less frequent (once or maybe twice in a month). Let people give crazy ideas, and let other be motivated to build maybe one of those. I found interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions happening around some of the ideas posted on these threads which IMO alighn with the core vision of HN.
- people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight
- people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread
The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the latter can be solved by having the post "stickied" to the top of HN. I don't mean at position 1, but at an unnumbered position above that (I realize this is a may seem antithetic to some HNers, but most forums have this ability). That way it can act like an announcement thread; no one will miss it since its at the top, and no one will race to make it first since only whoishiring can post it.
An additional benefit would be that future "Who is hiring?" posts could also be posted in the same place, so everyone can find it more easily.
All told, I've really enjoyed the Idea Sunday posts, so I hope dang will rethink cancelling the experiment. As to the point that they are growing less interesting with regularity, I think a monthly or twice-monthly post may make more sense than a weekly one.
I am surprised that people post them themselves, and don't appear to be checking for other threads posted the same day.