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Interestingly, I wrote a similar analysis 7 years ago. 30k visits was also what I saw! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hac...

I had a couple of moderately popular posts in June this year. HN sent 31,588 views directly - plus associated views from apps. A post of mine in March got 36k.

I wonder if HN has reached a local maximum of readers?

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I take it you're always reaching some small subset of HN readers - filtered by the kind of people who visit links by the kind of people actually interested in the topic, etc. I know that of the links that I do upvote, I probably only visit a tiny fraction of them.

Interesting! I had a post top front page earlier this year and it generated 31,029 pageviews - almost exactly what you experienced.

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