Are we looking at the same chart? The trend seems to be climbing to me.
fogus was a big perpetrator
I feel so dirty when you put it that way.
But if what you say is true then my recent lack of perpetration directly correlates with the trend of "Hacker News is declining" posts. Sure, correlation ain't causation, but from my perspective I was singlehandedly responsible for keeping HN interesting and edgey.
Correlation is fun!
Re:Clojure Conj 2011 Early Registration Open
by pygy_ on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:09AM
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Hey, don't feel bad, I said that with the tongue in the cheek (sorry if it wasn't clear). I actually enjoyed the Clojure posts a lot and read most of them (as well as most of your contributions). Did you stop the Clojure-related submissions, or did people stop upvoting them?
In the chart, HN is rising at an accelerating rate, but Clojure has been stagnant or even slightly decreasing for about a year now.
It has been stagnant for one year in Google Trends. It's progresson was eerily parallel with HN's in 2009 and the first half of 2010. At the time there were at least one Clojure story on the front page per day (fogus was a big perpetrator). Then people ran off of new things to show off and the mentions here became more rare. Roughly at that time, it stopped progressing in Google Trends.
Correlation ain't causation, but I wouldn't be surprised by a link here.
For comprison, here's Clojure vs. Common Lisp: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%2Cclojure