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Most sites lose traffic in summer.
by pg 17y ago
Most sites lose traffic in summer.
- mattmaroon 17y agoYeah but this is unfortunately something more than that. Platform changes have been very painful recently and might be about to get worse.
- nradov 17y agoIn what sense is less traffic on lame social network games "unfortunate"? Seems like a net positive for humanity to me. :-)
- mattmaroon 17y agoThat's because you consider yourself some sort of arbiter of taste. What you categorically dismiss is enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people who spend billions on it. The ads bought by game makers are the reason Facebook is now profitable. They probably account for most of its revenue already and will probably be the vast majority of it going forward.
- staunch 17y agoYou run a social gaming company, so it's obvious why you feel that way. For most regular people they can be very annoying. Anything that makes games on Facebook less of an annoyance is probably a good thing in the long run, for Facebook anyway.
- dasil003 17y agoOuch dude, that's way defensive. It has nothing to do with taste. It has to do with Zynga providing incredibly shallow gameplay solely optimized for virality and addiction. It's not entertainment, it's a money grab. If you can't see that and you feel the need to shout down any opinion along those lines then you may not have the stomach to succeed in the social gaming market...
- TotlolRon 17y agoThe month of March is 64% winter and 36% Spring. April is 100% spring.
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- tokenadult 17y agoNot in the Southern Hemisphere, but your point is well taken that a typical summer slump (noticeable mostly in the Northern Hemisphere) wouldn't be expected to show up as a March drop in number of users.
- pg 17y agoSure. The dropoff is gradual as weather gets better. It's not a step function. Maybe I should just resign myself to saying everything in twice as many words...
- projectileboy 17y ago# words required + patience required = C * # of HN users, where C > 1... <sigh>...
- TotlolRon 17y agoYah, those newbies. They don't get it and can't read pseudo code. (the yearly summer trend is still far away regardless of how sunny it is in the bay area right now. If there is anything special this year is the relatively early arrival of Easter which may break patterns.) ah, much better with more words.