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Django People has returned

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Re: Django People has returned

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Post by brutasse »

rburhum wrote: post #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.

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

Re: Django People has returned

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Post by brutasse »

randomdrake wrote: post #17
brutasse wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The old Djangopeople hosted avatars but I've switched to gravatar. So just updating the gravatar associated to your account's email address should do it. I'll make that clearer on the site.

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Post by brutasse »

whalesalad wrote: post #18

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

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!

Re: Django People has returned

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Post by ivix »

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.

Re: Django People has returned

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Post by tweiss »

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.

Re: Django People has returned

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Post by Nagyman »

jordanmessina wrote: post #11

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 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.

Re: Django People has returned

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Post by canadiancreed »

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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