I agree with you, and when Jono made his post on the original Hacker News thread, I immediately followed him on twitter and even CC'd him on tweets that had people talking about things hoping that he'd respond to them, at least post a public post outside of the HN thread saying that they're working on things... But he was more worried about promoting the community leadership summit.

Kind of sad honestly. Not very good community leadership by ignoring your own community to promote a community leadership conference.