Has HN traffic / engagement declined over the past year?
Over the past year I've anecdotally noticed a decrease in posting volume, comment volume, and even comment and post quality. HN doesn't publicly post their statistics (to my knowledge), but does anyone at HN have (and can share) visibility into any stats or trends over the past few years and can share how any of that has changed? Mostly curious but also I think there's some macro changes going on in tech and entrepreneurship.
I noticed a large uptick in comments from the 'working from home' cohort during the Pandemic. Whether that has helped HN is anyone's guess, but there is (was?) more noise.
Not sure about traffic but from my perspective, discussion culture has turned very elitist with zero tolerance for outsiders, let alone humour.