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They pay people to do that.

by db48x 7y ago

quotz 7y ago
Yeah, but even HN? This place is dear to me and now theyre destroying it. Its like they found my secret treehouse...
- r721 7y ago
  HN is actually quite popular website - SimilarWeb's estimate is 12.6 million visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...
  - dang 7y ago
    It's more like 150M visits a month. Edit: 147M in September. Edit 2: I'm talking about page views, plus ajax requests like collapsing subthreads. If by 'visits' you mean user sessions, that number would obviously be lower.
    - r721 7y ago
      Thanks! I heard their estimates can be wildly inaccurate, but I didn't think that can mean wrong by order of magnitude...
- r721 7y ago
  By the way, I just noticed this: >Traffic by countries >United States 36.66% >China 13.19%
  - dang 7y ago
    That's wildly inaccurate. When I ran the numbers, China was less than 1%.
    - yorwba 7y ago
      Did you notice a drop in traffic when the Great Firewall started blocking HN?
      - dang 7y ago
        When was that?
        yorwba 7y ago
        Since I'm no longer in China, I rely on GreatFire Analyzer to check: https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com According to that data, it started in August, which is also when people started to notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 (Edit: just noticed you were in that thread. I think it was the first; at least I can't find any others with this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Blocked%20China&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) The block doesn't seem to be absolute, as some of GreatFire's servers still occasionally get through. Based on previous experience, I guess it's location-dependent, but can't say for sure.

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They pay people to do that.

by db48x 7y ago

They pay people to do that.

quotz 7y ago
Yeah, but even HN? This place is dear to me and now theyre destroying it. Its like they found my secret treehouse...
- r721 7y ago
  HN is actually quite popular website - SimilarWeb's estimate is 12.6 million visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...
  - dang 7y ago
    It's more like 150M visits a month. Edit: 147M in September. Edit 2: I'm talking about page views, plus ajax requests like collapsing subthreads. If by 'visits' you mean user sessions, that number would obviously be lower.
    - r721 7y ago
      Thanks! I heard their estimates can be wildly inaccurate, but I didn't think that can mean wrong by order of magnitude...
- r721 7y ago
  By the way, I just noticed this: >Traffic by countries >United States 36.66% >China 13.19%
  - dang 7y ago
    That's wildly inaccurate. When I ran the numbers, China was less than 1%.
    - yorwba 7y ago
      Did you notice a drop in traffic when the Great Firewall started blocking HN?
      - dang 7y ago
        When was that?
        yorwba 7y ago
        Since I'm no longer in China, I rely on GreatFire Analyzer to check: https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com According to that data, it started in August, which is also when people started to notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 (Edit: just noticed you were in that thread. I think it was the first; at least I can't find any others with this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Blocked%20China&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) The block doesn't seem to be absolute, as some of GreatFire's servers still occasionally get through. Based on previous experience, I guess it's location-dependent, but can't say for sure.