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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

> I believe HN has around 1.5-2.5 million

HN has about 5M unique monthly users depending on how you count them.

Thank you for sharing this, dang!

Any stats you can share on registered user engagement?

I'd love to see a breakdown or writeup on this subject in general.

Really? How many users perform any writes monthly?

I only see a couple thousand people actively comment or vote.

The usual ratio is pretty crazy, like 99 to 1.

The 1% rule:

The way I've usually seen it states is that 10% of your users will comment, and 10% of that 10% will start new threads/posts.

Easier to just say 10% comment, 1% posts.

That describes my usage pretty well. Dang, no comments from me on the next 9 articles.

Can't comment on 9 in an hour anyways. You get rate-limited on HN. :)

I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!

Yeah, I lurk and comment on here far too much.

why should I comment when everyone just downvotes me.

People don't downvote for no reason, especially not on HN.

Hasn’t a significant amount of those users only started here in the past several months? Someone shared a chart a while back and it was striking.

Not the case, no.

I don't recall seeing that chart - if anyone can link me to it I'd be interested in taking a look.

Bots gonna bot

how do you distinguish bots and real users?