Thrutched, One month later

It's been one month since I launched my climbing news website, so I thought I'd give those that wished me well an update (and possibly gain some new users too ;).<p>First thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280</a><p>Second thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941</a><p>`<p>What's happened since then:<p>- Two redesigns<p>- Over 80 topic posts (57 of which were from me)<p>- Approx 50 unique visitors/day<p>- Defeated: 2 spammers<p>`<p>Traffic: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png</a><p>Visitors: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png</a><p>The first and second traffic peaks are from the HN posts. The third peak was when I cross-posted an article to various climbing forums. I got criticized heavily for it, but it was a good learning experience.<p>I think it's important to get periodic bursts of traffic from other sites, but at the end of the day, regular contributors are the most important, especially when setting the tone of the community.

Might I suggest adding a Facebook "Like" button to the page? I found that the couple of people that "like" it each day via your button both make the site's growth look stronger (the number displayed goes up) as well as traffic increases.<p>I noticed a significant improvement on traffic to one of my sites after adding the button, so much so that I'd advocate it for any growing community.<p>(No, I don't work for Facebook)

This is really cool. As an aside, is it me, or are a disproportionate number of HN-ers also climbers (myself included)? I've seen at least a few threads about climbing the past few weeks, can't say the same for any other sport.

awesome, never knew about the site. thanks for posting.