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Old enough to know that this has been asked before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycomb

Old enough to know that this has been asked before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923

JamesLeonis 14y ago
It's interesting to compare the responses here to those. I especially like the "spike" in users over 60 that mysteriously showed up between then and now.
manojlds 14y ago
But not old enough to know that there are new users all the time? ( and maybe old users leave too ) The numbers are going to change every year, and it would be interesting to know how HN users are distributed in terms of age.
MichaelApproved 14y ago
759 days ago, 1448 days ago and 1867 days ago, respectively. I think it's OK to ask this question after 2 years. It's great to see how communities change over the years. Yes, I know it's not scientific at all and does a poor job of reflecting real demographics. But, if you think there's value in asking, then there's value in comparing previous answers.
- pavanky 14y ago
  It is also interesting to see what the median age is. I think it is between 25-30 now where as it was between 30-35 before. The ratio of teenagers also seems to be decreasing.
  - RaSoJo 14y ago
    Ah good. I thought i was growing old. Now i realize everyone on HN is growing old with me.
- rdl 14y ago
  Average account age (especially for people broken down by submitters with frequency, commenters with frequency, and quality commenters by frequency) would be MUCH more awesome than age, I think.
ricardobeat 14y ago
In graphs: http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/ http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/ Went from a couple hundred answers in 2008-2011 to +3000 today, and counting. The distribution doesn't seem to have changed much other than the current fool answers, hard to tell since the charts are not in absolute scale. Would be cool to aggregate all the years for comparison, but I have no idea how to merge the age ranges. Script used to get the data: https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/5370218 https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/5370218
- andreasvc 14y ago
  Nice graphs. It would be nice if the categories had the same colors across graphs, to enable comparisons.
  - zevyoura 14y ago
    The categories aren't the same across the polls, though.

JamesLeonis 14y ago

It's interesting to compare the responses here to those. I especially like the "spike" in users over 60 that mysteriously showed up between then and now.

manojlds 14y ago

But not old enough to know that there are new users all the time? ( and maybe old users leave too ) The numbers are going to change every year, and it would be interesting to know how HN users are distributed in terms of age.

MichaelApproved 14y ago

759 days ago, 1448 days ago and 1867 days ago, respectively. I think it's OK to ask this question after 2 years. It's great to see how communities change over the years. Yes, I know it's not scientific at all and does a poor job of reflecting real demographics. But, if you think there's value in asking, then there's value in comparing previous answers.

pavanky 14y ago
It is also interesting to see what the median age is. I think it is between 25-30 now where as it was between 30-35 before. The ratio of teenagers also seems to be decreasing.
- RaSoJo 14y ago
  Ah good. I thought i was growing old. Now i realize everyone on HN is growing old with me.
rdl 14y ago
Average account age (especially for people broken down by submitters with frequency, commenters with frequency, and quality commenters by frequency) would be MUCH more awesome than age, I think.

ricardobeat 14y ago

In graphs: http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/ http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/ Went from a couple hundred answers in 2008-2011 to +3000 today, and counting. The distribution doesn't seem to have changed much other than the current fool answers, hard to tell since the charts are not in absolute scale. Would be cool to aggregate all the years for comparison, but I have no idea how to merge the age ranges. Script used to get the data: https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/5370218 https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/5370218

andreasvc 14y ago
Nice graphs. It would be nice if the categories had the same colors across graphs, to enable comparisons.
- zevyoura 14y ago
  The categories aren't the same across the polls, though.