Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

RonnieOwnsLexus wrote: post #4

Am I reading the new users graph correctly ? Hackernews got 64K new users in 2023? What is the DAU/MAU If anyone knows

It says the number is a measure of users who posted their first comment or submission in 2023. So that, at least, is the correct way to read the graph.

That is interesting! Especially considering the true number of signups would be higher based on users who signed up but have never posted anything. Although we dont know how many are spam accounts that signed up, posted, and got banned.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by jacurtis » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 4:59 AM UTC

Was anyone else shocked to be reminded that a few of these top stories happened in 2023 and not years earlier?

I thought the Silicon Valley Bank failure was 2022. It feels like so long ago. Crazy how long 2023 felt like (at least for me).

Also interesting is that the number of Twitter posts were cut almost in half this year. Despite what a certain CEO claims, all indicators seem to affirm that the popularity of that platform has decreased significantly in 2023.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by xnx » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 5:18 AM UTC

jacurtis wrote: post #7

Was anyone else shocked to be reminded that a few of these top stories happened in 2023 and not years earlier? I thought the Silicon Valley Bank failure was 2022. It feels like so long ago. Crazy how long 2023 felt like (at least for me). Also interesting is that the number of Twitter posts were cut almost in half this year. Despite what a certain CEO claims, all indicators seem to affirm that the popularity of that…

Creator here. I had forgotten all about the bank collapse/contagion week until I put this together. I remember a lot of discussion around if the actions were necessary, or if it amounted to a bailout. By one measure, it's a great thing that SVB seems like a distant memory and not an ongoing concern.

When I first saw that twitter.com stories drop off like that, I thought it might be because of links going to nitter or similar, but that didn't seem to be the case. No telling what the Twitter diaspora will result in.

One of the other interesting domain dropoffs happened between 2019 and 2020 (not shown on that view) when nytimes.com seems to have received some type of penalty.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by xnx » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 5:20 AM UTC

jonchurch_ wrote: post #6

RonnieOwnsLexus wrote: post #4

Am I reading the new users graph correctly ? Hackernews got 64K new users in 2023? What is the DAU/MAU If anyone knows

It says the number is a measure of users who posted their first comment or submission in 2023. So that, at least, is the correct way to read the graph. That is interesting! Especially considering the true number of signups would be higher based on users who signed up but have never posted anything. Although we dont know how many are spam accounts that signed up, posted, and got banned.

Creator here. I'd love to know the number of accounts created, but that is not in the official data and I couldn't figure out anywhere to get it. It should be possible to get this data by crawling profile pages, but there's no comprehensive list or way to find them. AFAIK there is also no exposed incrementing user id that might hint at how many users were created between two dates.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by Brajeshwar » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 6:00 AM UTC

And, I thought I needed to cut down on my time and engagements on Hacker News. A lot of people seem to be spending way too much time here. The COVID-19 got me sucked in here and I like this realm.