And here I thought "Yay, I can find more people in my area." Nope, it's just me, like I suspected.
The question is how to connect people with each other.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 (March 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444556 (Feb 2018)
It's on my list to do this again!
United Kingdom 6.17%
India 5.54%
Germany 3.53%
Canada 3.4%
Australia 3%
Others 24.6%
https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#geo...
Those numbers seem mostly in the ranges I posted back in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521). But the total views they report at https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com is way off. I think they report 11M monthly (I can't view the site anymore), but the actual number was 209M in November. There's a lot of bot traffic in there, though, so it's a bit hard to interpret.
Edit: on the other hand, 16% of those 209M hits were by logged-in users, who tend not to be bots, and the ratio of logged-out to logged-in users is always high (I would have said at least 10 to 1), so maybe 209M isn't so far off.
Just reporting, in case it wasn't expected.
More info in the note here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411640
But next time you go on a trip, have a look at the map! You might be able to meet someone interesting there.