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> one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet. I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, an
by pinkmuffinere 1y ago
> one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.
- youniverse 1y agoI wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.
- consumer451 1y agoI think it’s single digit percentages that have an account.
- fragmede 1y ago90-9-1 principal is considered the truth, though I've not seen any rigorous studies to back that up. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_9091_principle_10_of_reddit_users_decide_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoAt the very least I'm confident it's a power-law distribution. 90-9-1 seems like a reasonable first-order estimate (but I've also seen no data)
- airstrike 1y agoGiven how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient
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- pinkmuffinere 1y agoI think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding? Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient