Ask YC: How many unique HN users are out there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379924

by jmtame • 18 years ago

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How many unique users exist in the HN community? Just curious.

pg2• 18 years ago

We get about 17-18k unique visitors on a weekday. There are 12385 accounts (by no means all active).

Daily page views are now around 220k.

jmtame2• 18 years ago

That is a significant amount. Thanks for the info.

geuis• 18 years ago

pg, was that 12k # of accounts? Just double checking. I love the fact that we're a small community. 18k views a day is really good for the number of users

siong1987• 18 years ago

I visit HN at least twice everyday. I think that's why HN attracts 18k views per day from 12k users.

wlievens• 18 years ago

Take into account that some people use the RSS feed exclusively.

RossM• 18 years ago

I'll admit I'm an RSS lurker but I do take time to read the comments.

anaulin• 18 years ago

=RossM

mikeyur• 18 years ago

No matter the count, I think HN is pretty perfect as-is. The conversations actually mean something here, it's nothing like digg (thank god!)

JMiao• 18 years ago

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5646/picture1rs7.png

pchristensen• 18 years ago

This is refreshing to hear compared to all of the "HN is becoming Reddit, omg!" comments and threads that pop up every couple weeks.

thomasmallen• 18 years ago

We're all just sock-puppets of eight original users. Wasn't it obvious?

yters• 18 years ago

No we aren't.

(this is to keep the non users guessing)

Angostura• 18 years ago

Well, I can touch my toes with my elbows. So I reckon I'm unique.

... oh, that wasn't what you meant?

vlad• 18 years ago

Say person A is unique. If everyone else is identical to each other, then that's unique compared to person A and vice versa. So two uniques is the lower-bound, right?

debt• 18 years ago

What's your point?

daemon• 18 years ago

I'm insanely busy, but I still find myself visiting twice a day. Definitely hooked.

Ask YC: How many unique HN users are out there?

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