It's been one month since I launched my climbing news website, so I thought I'd give those that wished me well an update (and possibly gain some new users too ;).

First thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280

Second thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941

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What's happened since then:

- Two redesigns

- Over 80 topic posts (57 of which were from me)

- Approx 50 unique visitors/day

- Defeated: 2 spammers

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Traffic: http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png

Visitors: http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png

The first and second traffic peaks are from the HN posts. The third peak was when I cross-posted an article to various climbing forums. I got criticized heavily for it, but it was a good learning experience.

I think it's important to get periodic bursts of traffic from other sites, but at the end of the day, regular contributors are the most important, especially when setting the tone of the community.