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Response looked a bit weaker than usual, so I was curious on the comment count on historical posts. Of course, comments can keep being added for 2 weeks before the thread is locked.

  May 2023 - 272 comments so far
  Apr 2023 - 592 comments
  Mar 2023 - 641 comments
  Feb 2023 - 602 comments
  Jan 2023 - 535 comments
  Dec 2022 - 583 comments
  Nov 2022 - 642 comments
  Oct 2022 - 567 comments
  Sep 2022 - 629 comments
  Aug 2022 - 771 comments
  Jul 2022 - 630 comments
  Jun 2022 - 864 comments
  May 2022 - 856 comments
  May 2021 - 933 comments
  May 2020 - 697 comments
  May 2019 - 1020 comments
  May 2018 - 1198 comments
  May 2017 - 1096 comments
  May 2016 - 937 comments
  May 2015 - 891 comments

I used https://hn.algolia.com/ for quick searching.

>>anonu+(OP)
I might point out that today is labour day in most of the world, so that might lead to fewer posts.

>>anonu+(OP)
Interesting that 2017-2019 had the most comments. I would have thought the market peaked in 2021.

>>anonu+(OP)
Is that just top level comments (aka actual job openings) or total comments (where discussions biasing the data)

>>savory+c8
Market might've peaked in 2021 salary-wise BECAUSE people were not willing to move so much? Not because of demand (more job openings), but because of restricted supply (devs were prob unwilling to move in uncertain times). Just a thought though.

>>Racing+Z9
its also only the first of the month, and a holiday in many areas.

>>anonu+(OP)
From having scraped HN job posts before, I’ve observed that it does take the full 2 weeks for these job postings to come in. I’d wait awhile before drawing any conclusions from today’s post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773972