Why “visitors” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Because websites with almost no visitors are hit the hardest. A hundreds bots per minute hitting your server (if you host any kind of source code) versus one real visitor every…
by jeroenhd · Oct 31, 2026
Nice example of Poe's Law. I genuinely can't tell if this is a sincere comment written by someone who spent too much time in the start-up bubble, or a satirical comment on that…
by vanderZwan · Oct 31, 2026
So I could troll French visitors of my website by starting a huge data transfer from their browser? Interesting...
by Lucasoato · Oct 31, 2026
I doubt this is the sole reason. Their search referrals are going down and logged out DAU in US dropped. They are looking for ways to convert casual visitors in regular users an…
by pgj · Oct 31, 2026
every fuckass website with 0.5 daily visitors has it now. russian minitrue had blocked cloudflare and the internet became completely unusable without a vpn. like you search for…
by vlyan · Oct 31, 2026
> A shop selling goods in $COUNTRY has very little to gain from allowing arbitrary users from any other country. Eh? a) Window shopping for the next time the out-of-country visi…
by simoncion · Oct 31, 2026
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Visitor, in English and Welsh law, is an academic or ecclesiastical title. Read more on Wikipedia