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I tried a lot of dates and I don't see any step change. I see a gradual decline. 2006-present: 5th 2010-present: 7th 2015-present: 19th 2020-present: 2
by do_not_redeem 2y ago
I tried a lot of dates and I don't see any step change. I see a gradual decline.
2006-present: 5th
2010-present: 7th
2015-present: 19th
2020-present: 29th
Who knows why that is. Maybe HN's audience has changed over the decades. Maybe your writing has. Maybe the novelty factor for Apple content is gone. Maybe there's just more competition for the front page now that HN is more mainstream. I just think it's unlikely that PG woke up one day and decided to screw you in particular.
The Simpsons had far too many seasons, but Matt Groening eventually went on to create Futurama. I hope you figure things out.
- znpy 2y ago> I see a gradual decline It just seems the guy from DF can't accept that
- Smylers 2y agoThat “gradual decline” is an artifact of your maths, in which you're gradually changing the weight of recent years. Consider a sequence with an extreme drop-off: 100, 100, 100, 100, 40. Taking averages of all the numbers, then all but the first, all but the first 2, and so on, yields: 88, 85, 80, 70, 40. That might look like it includes a gradual decline, but clearly there's nothing gradual in the underlying data.
- do_not_redeem 2y agoRight you are, good catch. Here it is broken down by year then. year rank ---- ---- 2007 80 2008 13 2009 3 2010 1 2011 2 2012 9 2013 78 2014 14 2015 305 2016 363 2017 7 2018 65 2019 28 2020 7 2021 106 2022 353 2023 86 2024 82 I still don't see a step change. 2022 was bad, but not as bad as that slump in 2015-2016.