Django People has returned

http://people.djangoproject.com

by juanriaza • 14 years ago

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people.djangoproject.com

randomdrake3• 14 years ago

Can anyone provide some insight as to why Django is so popular in Europe? I'm willing to accept that this site just isn't a good representation of the interest in the world, but it seems heavily favored there.

tommypalm• 14 years ago

Europe is awake already and has had a chance to register?

d0ugal• 14 years ago

It contains the original database, thus its everybody that registered over the last few years. I can't remember when it first appeared.

utlanning• 14 years ago

This site doesn't provide any evidence that Django is popular in Europe, only that a lot of European Django devs have registered with the site.

akoumjian• 14 years ago

DjangoCon Europe is happening right now.

randomdrake3• 14 years ago

Ahh... that makes sense. Thanks :)

brutasse7• 14 years ago

The homepage actually only show the most recent signups. Since we announced the site at Djangocon Europe we got lots of signups from there. The homepage will need some improvement, I'll look at changing that to some sort of density map.

randomdrake3• 14 years ago

Fair enough. A choropleth map would be cool. Another question, if I may: how come it's not obvious how to update your profile photo? Maybe I missed something, but I looked in earnest to find the option and could not.

bcostlow• 14 years ago

There is something odd going on with the default map.

If I search for my name, it shows the map with a pin at my location, near Columbus, OH, USA. If I just start from the home page, no matter how much I zoom in, I don't show up.

So whether or not the site users are a good representation of the interest in the world, the default map seems a poor representation of their users.

Edit: Brutasse posted on the thread explaining this right as I posted.

blahpro• 14 years ago

It left?

bennylope• 14 years ago

It was down for the past few months (at least).

kennethlove• 14 years ago

I'd say at least a year. The outage what prompted my partner and I to build djangopeople.me.

jaddison• 14 years ago

I'm on the site, but I can't log in or retrieve my password using my standard username. It would be nice to have a reset password by email instead of just username.

brutasse7• 14 years ago

Are you https://people.djangoproject.com/jamesaddison/?

Get in touch via email and I'll tell you which email address is associated to your account. My contact info is on https://bruno.renie.fr/.

jordanmessina• 14 years ago

The site isn't letting me sign up. When I click "Sign Me Up" I just get back to the sign up page with no form errors displayed.

brutasse7• 14 years ago

I don't see anything 500'ing on our side. If you could fire up a debugger and see what's being sent to the server and the response you get back, that'd be great.

The issues are here: https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople/issues

ashray• 14 years ago

Haha only on hacker news. Would love to do this to end users :D

Cherian• 14 years ago

Ditto here. I gave up in 3 tries.

brutasse7• 14 years ago

Sorry to hear that. I'll rework the sign up workflow to make it simpler.

Nagyman• 14 years ago

I had the same issue, but I hadn't zoomed in to the location on the map (I only typed it). Further, when I revisited the page, there were insecure assets that didn't load by default.

arrowgunz• 14 years ago

Yep. Same here. No error is being displayed. I am just being taken back to the same page over and over again.

whalesalad• 14 years ago

This website has always been a tremendous pain in the ass to use. I just want to update my location =(

brutasse7• 14 years ago

There is an open issue where updating location doesn't seem to be working for some people. I'll look into it, if you have any usability suggestion please get in touch: https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople/issues — thanks!

rburhum• 14 years ago

Somebody needs to tell them about Google Fusion Tables, Heatmaps and server-side point clustering and rendering. Dropping a whole bunch of pins from a random sample like that is horrible visualization. It assumes I am going to zoom in to every single place to figure out if indeed there is a pin around there.

brutasse7• 14 years ago

Yes, this is on the list of things to do.

zalew• 14 years ago

there are some obsolete profiles to fill in, like pownce or magnolia. it certainly needs a freshening up. why you released it so soon before revamping it a bit? http://djangopeople.me/ filled the absence quite decently (except obligatory twitter).

ivix• 14 years ago

The huge map on the front page fails to deliver on the promise "Discover users of the Django Web framework near you" - I can't, because the map only shows a fraction of the pins.

As someone has said before, load the data into google fusion tables and it's quite easy to show hundreds and thousands of points.

tweiss• 14 years ago

guys, please fix your registration process. Way too much stuff that you ask for in one view and errors don't get properly displayed. I gave up after 3 tries...

But I like the idea, it's hard to find other django hackers in Berlin. Everybody's doing Rails or still PHP.

canadiancreed• 14 years ago

the map points seems really off. For Canada for example there's folks that are based in Edmonton, but are treading water in the middle of Hudson Bay. Also is there a reason why the map is so zoomed out when you click on countries?

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