Comment by guizzy
12 years ago
It is official; Alexa now confirms: Hacker News is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Hacker News community when Google confirmed that Hacker News market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web traffic. Coming close on the heels of a recent Alexa survey which plainly states that Hacker News has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Hacker News is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent web community IQ test.
You don't need to be Paul Graham to predict Hacker News's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Hacker News faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Hacker News because Hacker News is dying. Things are looking very bad for Hacker News. As many of us are already aware, Hacker News continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Hope you are right, I hope that HN does reduce market share, and head back to its roots, as a niche site for hackers.
http://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying
Whoosh.
I was thinking the same thing! Unless of course that reduced market share is all of us that are looking for an HN replacement.
Go home Signal 11, you are drunk.