readership

A successful one, no doubt (especially since the readership is also a main target demographic)...

Way higher than places like Reddit or Stack Overflow (sites which correlate strongly with hn readership).

Right, but the Mercury News is titling things for its readership, which presumably by and large do know where it's based.

You can set up another site but if it hasn't got the readership, fewer people are going to do AMAs there.

Seems like this is a great way to boost readership by Techcrunch and others.

The overall readership size isn't of great concern (the more the merrier), but it breaks down when people start interacting at scale.

Mystery and Sci-fi magazines used to provide both a platform and a means of earning a living for new authors, but in recent years readership of literary periodicals has fallen.

I'd recommend you start your post in a more serious manner, if you'd like it to gain serious readership.

Well you have to admit that the readership does really like making things...

Also, Rolling Stone's ability to do good investigative journalism is orthogonal to its willingness to challenge the political worldview prevalent among its readership.

I assure you that the entirety of HN readership can avail itself of word definition services.

But print readership was going down for a while before then.

"cake competition at the local high school" level news) -- I think she's quite representative of the readership demographic.

Their slogan is something along the lines of "Only our readers can buy us." I always found it quite ironic that their readership seems to feel like that guarantees impartiality.