I'm mildly pleased that HN shrank, not grew, this month. Not by a lot, but still. Hopefully that won't reverse. If the community doesn't grow, it can't turn into another digg.
Note that the statistic isn't for HN only, but also includes the rest of ycombinator.com. I suspect HN didn't shrink; instead YC got press hits in April + May after registrations and kicking off the summer cycle. Also, for that level of traffic, I'd be wary of compete.com stats. More so than usual in any case.
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I'm mildly pleased that HN shrank, not grew, this month. Not by a lot, but still. Hopefully that won't reverse. If the community doesn't grow, it can't turn into another digg.
Note that the statistic isn't for HN only, but also includes the rest of ycombinator.com. I suspect HN didn't shrink; instead YC got press hits in April + May after registrations and kicking off the summer cycle. Also, for that level of traffic, I'd be wary of compete.com stats. More so than usual in any case.
Traffic actually grew last month. It went down at the beginning of the summer though.