# 1,000,000 pageviews in 2 weeks...! Why? Because Discourse. 🚀

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891>\
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**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891 "2017-08-27T21:17:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![asirota](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/asirota/32/197298_2.png) [@asirota](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asirota)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/32 "2022-06-18T14:50:44Z")

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It probably was too expensive to run discourse for a chat style system for 100k+ people that continued to grow without any constraints. But that’s just a guess.

Also the timing of conversation in cryptocurrency is important. They are shilling and inventing and the rest of it. So synchronized chat in real-time is probably more appropriate than anything.

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