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> Hacker News seems to have the best quality of discourse/users at the moment, but I attribute this to its relatively small user-base. 50 to 100 thousand daily
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
> Hacker News seems to have the best quality of discourse/users at the moment, but I attribute this to its relatively small user-base.
50 to 100 thousand daily users ("users", not visitors) is not small by any means!
- dredmorbius 14y agoAt Internet scale (~2 billion connected users) it's minuscule. 0.005% of all available users. Within the United States, it would fall well below the 100th most widely circulated print magazine, as a monthly circulation statistic. I'll assume that monthly stats are a few times higher than the daily usage metric, but you'd still have to hit roughly 1 million to break into the top 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulati... From an advertising perspective, unless you're extremely focused in your interest base (and there are markets of interest within the HN readership), it's tiny.