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Interesting is the start of the real growth roughly a year after the launch, coinciding with a broadening of the scope of HN. This isn't true. What you're seei
by pg 17y ago
Interesting is the start of the real growth roughly a year after the launch, coinciding with a broadening of the scope of HN.
This isn't true. What you're seeing there is the usual holiday dropoff, followed by the huge bump that happened when Arrington outed us. Actually HN's growth rate has been pretty consistent throughout. A graph of x^n generally looks as if it's nearly flat initially and then takes off at some point, but this is an illusion.
It also isn't true that the change in focus happened then. We changed the site from "Startup News" to "Hacker News" after 6 months.
- electromagnetic 17y agoThere appears to be a major dip every Mid-December to January. There also appears to be a moderate, but much longer, dip starting in May and ending in July. I'm guessing this speaks more of the average age of users. I expect users with children tend to get less online-time around the summer holidays and especially the Christmas break. I know personally, without children, that I had much less time to access HN around Christmas.
- pchristensen 17y agoPlus college kids