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Django People has returned

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Re: Django People has returned

#12

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.

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.

Re: Django People has returned

#13

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.

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.

Re: Django People has returned

#14
post #6

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.

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/.

Re: Django People has returned

#15

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.

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

Re: Django People has returned

#17

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.

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.

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.

Re: Django People has returned

#20
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.
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