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I stopped linking to HN from essays several months ago. I don't want the community to grow too fast.
by pg 17y ago
I stopped linking to HN from essays several months ago. I don't want the community to grow too fast.
- robg 17y agoWhat's the traffic difference between your highest visited essays and HN? I found YC and HN through your essays. I'm wondering if that's a more general phenomenon.
- pg 17y agoOn an ordinary weekday, HN gets about 3x as many unique visitors as my site: 33k vs 11k. When a new essay is very popular, my traffic spikes up to 30 or 40k a day, or in rare cases over 50k.
- robg 17y agoThanks! As a comparison, how's this essay looking today? I only saw the link because it was on the front page, but I think that's one of their most popular blogs. Is the NY Times as powerful as claimed in PR circles?
- alanthonyc 17y agoAgreed. As much as I like the fact that ideas coming from this site are spreading, I would also like people to work at least as much as I did to find HN. A direct link from the NYT would be way too easy.
- weaksauce 17y agoHas the growth rate been fairly steady or has it increased as of late?
- pg 17y agohttp://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png Traffic spiked during applications and dipped at the beginning of summer, as it always does, but you can see there's secular growth mixed with the seasonal variation.