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+title = "Reaching 9000 Stars & The Effects of Hacker News"
+date = 2022-04-05T10:00:00Z
+author = "Dan Brown"
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+It's been a while since I last put out a blogpost regarding a GitHub star milestone, with the last being a [December 2017 blogpost](blog/1k-stars-and-v0-19-0/) where we hit 1000 stars.
+Well today I'm happy to say we've now hit 9000 stars on GitHub! 🥳 🥳 🥳
+
+GitHub star count is mostly a vanity metric, it does not reflect actual project popularity or usage in any way, but it's a metric nonetheless which we can use to see our own relative growth. Our star growth over time can be seen below:
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+![Line chart showing accelerating GitHub star increase](/images/2022/04/star_growth.png)
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+As you can see, we generally experience a constant, slight acceleration over time but there's a significant jump in early 2022, and that's mostly due to Hacker News.
+
+## Effects of Hacker News
+
+On the 8th of January I made a ["Show HN" submission on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851834). This post done very well, especially compared to [previous submissions](https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bookstackapp.com) by myself and others. 
+The post git the top of Hacker News in the next couple of hours, and I received a bunch of positive & constructive comments. Overall it was a pretty great experience.
+
+Our website traffic hit 13k visitors for the day of the post, up on our usually weekend lull of about 700 visitors per day, then we quickly sloped back down over the next two days:
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+![BookStack Visitor Analytics Line Chart, Showing a spike on the 8th of Jan](/images/2022/04/bookstack_traffic_hn_week.png)
+
+Since then, we've retained a nice ~36% average increase over February and March:
+
+![BookStack last 6 months of site analytics line chart](/images/2022/04/bookstack_traffic_hn_6m.png)
+
+As touched on above, this increase of traffic had an impact on our GitHub star count:
+
+![Stars per month line chart, showing spike for January 2022](/images/2022/04/stars_per_month.png)
+
+We received 736 new stars in January, A big increase over the previous height of 244.
+
+Overall, it brought a mass amount of new eyes to the project, while providing a nice boost in momentum in terms of ongoing visitors.
+
+If you want to explore some of this data yourself, our [website analytics are open here](https://analytics.bookstackapp.com/bookstackapp.com) and statistics for our GitHub project [can be found here](https://gh-stats.bookstackapp.com/).
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+<span style="font-size: 0.8em;opacity:0.9;">Header Image Credits: <span>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@vorosbenisop?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Benjamin Voros</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/stars-landscape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></span></span>
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