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Yeah I thought the number of commenters was a reasonable approximation of the number of users on the site. I also was shocked when I found out how many people are on here! Turns out I'm an outlier in terms of commenting (I'm actually #76 https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ).

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I think the number of commenters fell quite dramatically after they stopped showing the score on comments. Before that HN felt like a much larger community.

When was that exactly? I've been around for about a year and half, and vaguely remember it. I think it was about a year ago. Is it right or my poor memory is playing tricks on me?

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