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But the userbase grew a lot, didn't it? I guess that'd explain the effect pretty straightforwardly.

• dang 8y ago
  The userbase grew a lot since 2012. You'd expect that to lead to proportionally more submissions (as it did more comments), but the number of submissions has stayed about the same. Bit of a puzzle, no? My theory is that it's because there's a limited supply of good-for-HN articles out there. But really we don't know. Also, those numbers are raw total submissions, with no attempt to control for dupes.
  • jerrre 8y ago
    "early-adopters" are more active users than the users coming a bit later?
    • hokus 8y ago
      Why would a new user post anything? Correct or not, I don't think one would expect their submissions to be picked up. For those who do there is always?: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories