Dang told me in 2019 that HN gets 150M page views a month, so it's not that obscure actually:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201120
150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.
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150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.