Hm, maybe. Hard to tell.

My usual publishing is definitely down, but then again the things I write for SN don't exactly compete with that -- other than in time.
And fiat work is crushing me, too, so yeah who knows really 

denlillaapan

Have you written more since you joined SN? I sure have haha

cryotosensei

Stacker News as a Third Space

Great observation. Yeah, for sure other spaces -- in that scary real world, nonetheless -- but since I come back here every day and try to post interesting things and read good takes, I guess it becomes a little bit of an intellectual third space. 