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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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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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.
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The issues are here: https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople/issues
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As someone has said before, load the data into google fusion tables and it's quite easy to show hundreds and thousands of points.
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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/.
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But I like the idea, it's hard to find other django hackers in Berlin. Everybody's doing Rails or still PHP.
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