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hi dang, i see you’re replying to some of these comments. would hn ever consider releasing vague stats about viewership, submissions, etc. i, and i think other

hi dang, i see you’re replying to some of these comments. would hn ever consider releasing vague stats about viewership, submissions, etc. i, and i think others, would be super interested to see how the community has grown over the last.. however many years i’ve been here!

dang 5y ago
Sure, we do that sometimes, just ad hoc rather than systematically. It's currently at something like 5M monthly unique users (well, IPs - hard to count unique users) and 6M daily page views. 1200(ish) submissions per day and 12k comments per day. HN has been growing much the same way for 10+ years - linearly, but with fairly large swings up and down. If you step back and squint, it's unmistakeably linear. We like it that way. Growth is important, but rapid growth would be unstable. This is a community not a startup! The one thing that hasn't grown much, since 2012, is the number of submissions per day. Comments yes, but submissions no. Why? I have no idea. Maybe there's a cap on how much content is out there.