Comment by pinkmuffinere

5 days ago

> one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.

I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.

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airstrike  5 days ago

Given how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient

  • pinkmuffinere  5 days ago

    I think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding?

    Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient

youniverse  5 days ago

I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.