For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Daring Fireball submissions to HN, sorted chronologically:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7ljmWbHtFsB4VRJ1Q0d...From first glance there's still some decent traffic on Daring Fireball submissions, even inside the times Gruber asserts deadweighting.
How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?
Have you looked into how much of DF was about Apple and how much was about Donald Trump during the affected time periods? It seems that you write about tech a lot less and politics a lot more. Which is fine, it's your blog! But don't expect tech enthusiasts to automatically be interested in your opinion on immigration or whatever.