The Cloudhiker Yearly Recap for 2024

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2024 was an exciting year for Cloudhiker and its community. We reached a major milestone together and the site grew every month. Even though two of the large planned new features were not completed, I personally believe that the site improved a lot in the past 12 months. But let's dive into the exciting new numbers for 2024 first.

New Year 2025

The year in numbers

During the last 365 days, Cloudhiker reached 23,000 websites. Almost 9,000 new sites were submitted by 408 different users. Out of those users, 193 users submitted their very first website to Cloudhiker this year! Also, over 5,000 people joined the Cloudhiker community.

Here's an overview on all the new sites that were submitted:

  • Arts, Design & Crafts: +728
  • Business, Economics: +287
  • Culture, Society: +536
  • Education, Learning: +156
  • Food, Cooking: +461
  • Fun Stuff: +954
  • Gaming: +538
  • Health: +493
  • History: +237
  • Home, Garden: +22
  • Literature, Writing: +832
  • Music, Audio: +515
  • Nature, Animals, Earth: +507
  • Other: +28
  • Philosophy, Life: +453
  • Science, Math: +250
  • Sports: +329
  • Technology, Internet: +1300
  • TV, Movies, Video: +368

All new and existing websites together pulled in an astonishing amount of 5,750,307 views!

The User Toplist for 2024

  1. Kovah with 4527 Sites
  2. ShashankPoojari with 1886 Sites
  3. Anonymous User with 1086 Sites
  4. SOBQJMV with 573 Sites
  5. AnimeGirly with 377 Sites
  6. Vivil with 321 Sites
  7. SarahLowe with 231 Sites
  8. skye0 with 185 Sites
  9. greenmountainmagpie with 102 Sites
  10. Minocula with 51 Sites

Big thanks to all contributors for submitting sites to Cloudhiker!

What else did we get?

During all the time I worked on Cloudhiker this year - over 300 hours in total - I worked on internal stuff a lot. The Exploring feature underwent a complete makeover, resulting in smoother functionality.

Cloudhiker also became part of the Net Zero programm on Tree Nation in March 2024. Since then, 215 trees were planted to offset 10.5 tonnes of CO2. View our progress here.

Unfortunately, reviewing new websites is still the most time-consuming part of Cloudhiker and quickly drains both energy and motivation. I spent over 60% of my 300 hours just for the review process. Although reviewing new websites remains time-intensive, I'm actively seeking solutions, like Community Voting, to streamline this process. More on that later.

Oh, did I mention that I was interviewed for an article which appeared on the BBC website?

Plans for the next year

As mentioned earlier, two large features were not completed this year, and thus were moved to 2025: Achievements and Discussions. I still want to complete the Achievements feature which is actually 50% complete already. Discussions however, will like have to wait for a longer time. There are two reasons: first is the complexity of the topic which also involves moderation. Second reason is the focus on making my work on Cloudhiker more efficient. A larger feature I want to work on is Community voting. This allows me to focus more on actual development while the community itself takes care of the review process.

Thank you all!

Last but not least, I would like to thank every single one of you. You all make Cloudhiker a great place on the internet. Thank you all!

Kevin