pull down to refresh
17 sats \ 3 replies \ @biggo 25 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Describe Stacker News in a single word: meta
These show "amount of paid currency", which has some increase in the very short timeframe you are showing (and certainly coincides with adoption of lightning). Look instead at the total and unique visitors for the past year:
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/Q3U_Nhy9aFtO-ife6t7_GGoqJPtqrfyn8d5PE6wf4-U/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmltZ3VyLmNvbS85NVpMdzdmLnBuZw
Could be better.
I don't mean to interrupt but while this graph looks flattish, it's showing an increase from 33k/month to 52k/month over 11 months.
It's not as good as we'd like obvi, and even I might refer to it as stagnant when I'm being self-deprecating, but it's 58% growth in visits in 11 months.
reply
Well we might as well keep on zooming out then!
5x organic growth in 2 years (and through a bear market) doesn't seem stagnant to me
reply
I hope you're right:)
reply