compare that to this graph: http://ycombinator.com/images/traffic-8dec08.png http://ycombinator.com/images/traffic-8dec08.png i think its worthwhile to mentio

compare that to this graph: http://ycombinator.com/images/traffic-8dec08.png http://ycombinator.com/images/traffic-8dec08.png i think its worthwhile to mention the fact that there are a lot of people who jumped into HN in the middle of 08, so they weren't around to see threads early in the year. or, another possible effect would be that because the community was smaller, there were fewer threads or fewer quality threads.