Very interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth.<p>Of course I would promote that idea, but really I'd be willing to bet it looks something like a pareto distribution, and it would be interesting to see what puts a user on one side of that curve or the the other.<p>patio11's 1.39 average reply rate would be an outlier, and there are people whose comments have the authority to simply close discussions that would need upvote stats to distinguish them might get lost viewed in that narrow dimension, but for all the time people spend on this site, it would be interesting to get a sense of what that might mean.
About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days.<p>I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150 comments. I'm calling BS on the 0-2 hours of sleep :)
Get stuck after clicking on "Show". Just shows "Loading" and a spinner.<p>Ah, nevermind - finally failed with "Network error".
Nice work. I tested with user pg and noticed that the Y-axis on submissions starts at 31/12/1969 and the comments starts prior to 04/09/1982, compressing the actual data into the right of the graph.<p>Second, the username on your app is case sensitive, not sure if it is on HN (haven't tested).<p>Other than these, nice work.
Funny website. Shows a cookie notice banner but sets no cookies (except if you click on the cookie notice button - then they set a cookie accepted cookie)<p>Also: if you are located in Berlin you should create a Privacy Policy and Imprint. That's more important than a cookie banner ...
Nice!
for my username it shows a single green dot in the center of the chart, the infamous "introverted person" distribution (also known as "insecure commenter" distribution.<p>EDIT: obviously, this comment broke the "curve". This distribution is known for being unstable.
Initially got the Network Error but after a few tries it worked. This is really cool - thanks for sharing!<p>I noticed you have an avg points indicator for submissions but not for comments - any reason for that decision?
This looks great! Very cool to see the distribution of what does/doesn't get comments and upvotes.<p>You may want to consider caching the results for the most popular accounts. May address the network issue.
See also lettergram's <a href="https://hnprofile.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnprofile.com/</a><p><a href="https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?search=user:kohtatsu" rel="nofollow">https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?search=user:kohtatsu</a><p>Would be cool to see average mood per topic :)
Does anyone have a screenshot they'd be willing to share of what the results look like in light of the fact that we've bear-hugged this site?
Genuine question: where does this fall with regards to GDPR? If you aggregate data about a European, don’t you technically need to ask them for permission first?