You may be the only one who signed up for this, but I bet there are lots of HN users in your area, for some value of 'lots'.

The question is how to connect people with each other.

Has HN ever published traffic stats by country? Just curious.

I did once, a long time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444556 (Feb 2018)

It's on my list to do this again!

United States 53.76%

United Kingdom 6.17%

India 5.54%

Germany 3.53%

Canada 3.4%

Australia 3%

Others 24.6%

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#geo...

Does anyone know how those numbers are generated? e.g. are they one of those outfits that use a browser extension?

Those numbers seem mostly in the ranges I posted back in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521). But the total views they report at https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com is way off. I think they report 11M monthly (I can't view the site anymore), but the actual number was 209M in November. There's a lot of bot traffic in there, though, so it's a bit hard to interpret.

Edit: on the other hand, 16% of those 209M hits were by logged-in users, who tend not to be bots, and the ratio of logged-out to logged-in users is always high (I would have said at least 10 to 1), so maybe 209M isn't so far off.

Btw, your socials are not displayed on meet.hn because you modified the text you had to paste in your HN description.

Just reporting, in case it wasn't expected.

More info in the note here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411640

Yeah I realized, but preferred to keep my own format.

There is even one user at North Korea. So you are not alone.

Yeah that's the case for some locations indeed.

But next time you go on a trip, have a look at the map! You might be able to meet someone interesting there.