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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! 🥳 🥳 🥳
+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 9,000 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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 ## 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.
+The post reached the top of Hacker News within 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:
+Our website traffic hit 13k visitors for the day of the post, up on our usual weekend lull of about 700 visitors per day, then we quickly sloped back down over the next two days:
 
 ![BookStack Visitor Analytics Line Chart, Showing a spike on the 8th of Jan](/images/2022/04/bookstack_traffic_hn_week.png)
 
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 ![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.
+We received 736 new stars in January, A big increase over the previous monthly 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.
 
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