Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)

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by michelson01 • 18 years ago

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michelson012• 18 years ago

yeah, this is using alexa rankings, so it's far from perfect and misses a lot of other data, so take it for what it's worth.

dshah• 18 years ago

Alexa did a major update to it's ranking algorithm and source data yesterday. It's supposedly a lot better.

paul9290• 18 years ago

yes ... though it depends who you ask. Many like hacker news rankings went down. Was 14K two days ago... now 77K, while looking down next to my alexa toolbar ranking of this site I have the compete toolbar that says hacker news is ranked 25K. Though compete only measures US traffic, best of my knowledge. Scribd was ranked 900 something now its 500 something. Congrat to Ed K and the Scribd team!

michelson012• 18 years ago

Scribd is growing quickly and actively hiring all kinds of developers (ruby on rails, flash/actionscript, C++, etc) so please contact us, hackers@scribd.com, if you're interested. Check out our jobs page here: http://www.scribd.com/static/jobs

Here's a link to our traffic graph on alexa:

http://snipurl.com/24rqq

maurycy• 18 years ago

What about yellowpages.com?

mhartl• 18 years ago

They're #2 according to the article.

sdurkin2• 18 years ago

The first time I used Scribd's iPaper I thought, "This is magic." Its one of those products that, as a web developer, you'd have to be stupid not to use. Its simply that much better than its competitors. Congratulations, guys.

ken2• 18 years ago

Can you explain the magic? I just don't get it. (Maybe I am stupid; I'll admit that much.)

From what I've seen, it looks like a Flash plugin to view PDFs. It breaks my scroll-wheel and keyboard shortcuts, uses funny-looking controls, and it takes as long to load the Flash plugin as it would have to just load the whole PDF. I always edit the URL so I can view the PDF normally. I don't know why I'd want to do this to my users.

xlnt4• 18 years ago

doesn't in-browser pdf viewing suck apart from safari?

sdurkin2• 18 years ago

I'll be the first to admit my perspective is limited, but for me, the "magic" is the ability to seamlessly and easily embed documents in a web page. Before iPaper, getting casual users to view a PDF or doc was brutal because it added another layer of complexity.

The user had to be able to understand and navigate an outside application, and what's worse, had to have the desire and memory to return to your website afterwards. iPaper simplifies the whole process and is worlds better than Acrobat Reader in terms of speed and simplicity.

mattmaroon2• 18 years ago

What was previously?

PStamatiou• 18 years ago

twitter?

markbao• 18 years ago

Scribd looks great, but Basecamp is down at 70262, probably since it uses subdomains. Full aggregated traffic for Basecamp and other 37signals properties would probably put it higher up on the list.

mattmaroon2• 18 years ago

Highly doubt it. They have a lot of signups, but I bet a lot fewer active users. Scribd claims over 17m uniques a month.

Though I bet 37 Signals financial statement looks a lot better.

blader• 18 years ago

The two largest Rails deployments on the internet are not on that list.

sanswork• 18 years ago

Could you please elaborate more on what those two deployments are?

alex_c• 18 years ago

It's a wiki, why not add them?

pg• 18 years ago

Wow, I didn't know that. This is a handy site.

rokhayakebe• 18 years ago

Double Wow, I didn't know Sribd is bigger than Yellow Pages

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

That's great for Scribd, not so great for Rails. The largest (known) Rails site isn't even in the top 500!

I'm curious how this compares to other technologies. Someone should write a script that crawls the top sites attempting to detect the technologies they're built on.

I can think of a few heuristics, like URL patterns and file extensions (.php, etc) and cookies (PHPSESSID for PHP, _session_id for Rails, JSESSIONID for J2EE, etc)

richcollins2• 18 years ago

That doesn't count desktop twitter clients.

It also doesn't count Facebook apps.

Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)

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