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HN is not small by any measure. It is often featured on the first Google page. The HN hug of death is just as real as the Slashdot effect. It is quite obvious
by xorcist 7y ago
HN is not small by any measure. It is often featured on the first Google page. The HN hug of death is just as real as the Slashdot effect.
It is quite obvious when companies who think these sites are relevant for their social media is featured. Suddenly a whole lot of upvotes comes along. Make of that what you will. Personally I think it is naive to believe that any open community is free from bought votes.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoDoes anyone have any actual measures of this? I guess there are some API services re I could investigate but ... I'm lazy and it's xmas. It still just runs on one large server IIRR
- squeaky-clean 7y agoHere's a post from 2013, "What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day" tl;dr numbers: 15,000+ unique visitors, 25,000+ page views https://levels.io/hacker-news-number-one/ https://levels.io/hacker-news-number-one/ And here's a thread from 2016 where users chime in with their results. tl;dr numbers: A #2 or #3 ranking was about 50k-75k pageviews. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008384