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Here are the actual traffic stats as of today: http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-19jan10.png http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-19jan10.png

• smokinn 17y ago
  Any idea what caused that huge spike in late August/early September?
  • pg 17y ago
    The thread on _why.
• andreyf 17y ago
  Paul, have you considered re-implementing the orange-names experiment as a gradient of gray-to-orange, to avoid a tribal sense of "grays versus oranges"? Or is that not-obviously-scalable?
• iamelgringo 17y ago
  Am I right in reading the graph, that when HN started, there were several thousand users?
  • pg 17y ago
    IIRC there were around 1500 uniques the first day.