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> We also did a mass invite not long ago that changed things up a bit. How did that work? I do wonder what the geographical distribution is of Lobsters since

• nickpsecurity 8y ago
  It's hard to tell. It was chaos at first but stabilized a bit. We have Americans in many areas, Canadians, a bunch in Europe, at least one in Peurto Rico, Asians... fairly diverse. The programmers include people doing web tech like what's posted here, people doing simplified or hardcore stuff in C, people in CompSci working on theory, some in companies sharing technical aspects of their work, some cultural, and occasionally just whatever's going around in tech news. The strange thing for me was people rarely commented. Some didn't even vote on articles they liked but emailed me. Aside from stories inviting frivilous debates, the comments were often useful in some way. The mass invite increased low-content comments but it's usually new people learning the norms of the community. Noise drops again sometime after that. I try to message them describing the site a bit to smooth that process over a bit. It's been pretty fascinating to observe those patterns. It was a strange site with a slow, but steady, stream of interesting submissions, comments, and people but hardly any comments. I just kept sharing and learning more overtime. It became part of my daily routine like Hacker News.