points by dang 3 years ago

> I believe HN has around 1.5-2.5 million

HN has about 5M unique monthly users depending on how you count them.

echelon 3 years ago

Thank you for sharing this, dang!

Any stats you can share on registered user engagement?

I'd love to see a breakdown or writeup on this subject in general.

searchableguy 3 years ago

Really? How many users perform any writes monthly?

I only see a couple thousand people actively comment or vote.

  • klooney 3 years ago

    The usual ratio is pretty crazy, like 99 to 1.

    • TylerE 3 years ago

      The way I've usually seen it states is that 10% of your users will comment, and 10% of that 10% will start new threads/posts.

      • daemoens 3 years ago

        Easier to just say 10% comment, 1% posts.

        • dayjaby 3 years ago

          That describes my usage pretty well. Dang, no comments from me on the next 9 articles.

          • deafpolygon 3 years ago

            Can't comment on 9 in an hour anyways. You get rate-limited on HN. :)

            • barefootcoder 3 years ago

              I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!

              • deafpolygon 3 years ago

                Yeah, I lurk and comment on here far too much.

        • icemelt8 3 years ago

          why should I comment when everyone just downvotes me.

          • daemoens 3 years ago

            People don't downvote for no reason, especially not on HN.

isleyaardvark 3 years ago

Hasn’t a significant amount of those users only started here in the past several months? Someone shared a chart a while back and it was striking.

  • dang 3 years ago

    Not the case, no.

    I don't recall seeing that chart - if anyone can link me to it I'd be interested in taking a look.

loandbehold 3 years ago

how do you distinguish bots and real users?