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>>aendru+(OP)
> 429 Too Many Requests

Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

>>NavinF+ma
This post is on the front of HN. Many a larger website have succumbed to HN's warm embrace.

>>jszymb+rl
Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?

>>yreg+6J
HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.

>>capabl+FN
Source on the millions?

This person says they got 12k visitors over a day:

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...

The websites hugged to death by this forum are usually tiny hobby projects.

>>yreg+TP
Dang from 6 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140

> There's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them), perhaps 10M page views a day (including a guess at API traffic), and something like 1300 submissions (stories) and 13k comments a day.

>>capabl+gC1
Forgot to mention, but "I was on the HN frontpage for X hours and got X views" doesn't always translate to the same happening for everything. Some topics are more interesting to the people just browsing HN, than others. I'd expect an article titled "I spent $6 Million On Google Ads Last Year" to be significantly less interesting than "MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry" for example, where the latter would surely gather a magnitude of more visits than the earlier, even if they would spend the same amount of hours on the frontpage.

Some content is simply more interesting for a broader audience.