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> HN is relatively small ...Is it? I mean, compared to Twitter, sure, but for a private forum I think of it as relatively large.
by andrewflnr 4y ago
> HN is relatively small
...Is it? I mean, compared to Twitter, sure, but for a private forum I think of it as relatively large.
- dang 4y agoBy internet standards. We're 2 or more orders of magnitude smaller than the marquee names. My guess (which I don't want to find out by experience) is that the pressure scales non-linearly, so a hundred times the users would mean who-knows-how-many-zeros more pressure. HN feels mid-size in a good way. Most forums are a lot smaller, and then there are the few famous ones that are much much larger. There aren't that many in HN's order of magnitude. The mid range is a nice place to hang because although the problems are impossible, they're not utterly impossible. You can work with them around the margins.
- perilunar 4y agoHow big is HN? Is there a stats page? How many users, daily visits, posts, etc.?
- dang 4y agoThere's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them), perhaps 10M page views a day (including a guess at API traffic), and something like 1300 submissions (stories) and 13k comments a day. The most interesting number is the 1300 submissions because that hasn't grown since 2011 - it just fluctuates. Everything else has been growing more or less linearly for a long time, which is how we like it.
- pixl97 4y agoNot only is HN small, it's focused. Make a post about celebrities, politics, or religion (that's not tech related) and see how long before it's flagged out of existence.