Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
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Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
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Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#2yeah, 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.
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#3Scribd 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:
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#4yeah, 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.
Alexa did a major update to it's ranking algorithm and source data yesterday. It's supposedly a lot better.
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#5What about yellowpages.com?
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#6The 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.
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#7What was previously?
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#8What about yellowpages.com?
They're #2 according to the article.
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#9The 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.
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.
Re: Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
#10The 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.
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 m…
doesn't in-browser pdf viewing suck apart from safari?