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This had actually gotten quite crufty over the years, and the bot powering the job board on our website finally gave up the ghost in December, no longer publishing new posts. This is a from-scratch rewrite that takes advantage of a bunch of recent improvements within the server, and tees up more

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For one: the new bot is able to forward a real-time feed of reactions that have been applied from members in the community, which adds a ton of signal as to what posts can be trusted

What I (@vcarl.com) am most excited about, though, is that this is directly powered by our Discord bot that enforces our job board rules. Where previously these messages were simply ingested and published as they came in, now they must pass a series of validation tests before being shared

We know that any application will get spammed with invalid submissions from around the world, but unfortunately that's table stakes for a public online job board. What we'd like, though, is to provide more ways for those who engage honestly to rise to the top