DjangoSites

You're looking at it! A website for the Django community to show off sites built using Django.

Tags: community, django, tools

Visit this website at http://www.djangosites.org/latest/

Owned by ross

Comments

Posted by skabber, 1 year ago.

:) how meta

Posted by moberley, 1 year ago.

I think it might be useful to have an icon or other indicator on the browse pages for sites that have source code available. Another nice thing would be more RSS feeds. (Right now the RSS icons on all pages appear to point only to the latest sites feed.)

Posted by dtietze, 1 year ago.

Great work! A few more search options would be nice. E.g. is there a way to enter a tag that doesn't appear in the tag cloud and find sites tagged with this? Also maybe a "10 random sites" option would be cool. Plus -- I can vote for my own submissions. That doesn't seem right. Dan.

Posted by dtietze, 1 year ago.

P.S. The comment preview does not match the final display of the comment. The preview shows line breaks, the final comment has the line breaks stripped.

Posted by moberley, 1 year ago.

I have another suggestion. It would be interesting to have other sorts of information. I'm thinking, in particular, of "developer notes". (I'm not quite sure what to call them, but hopefully this term communicates my intent.) Having source code for a site is really great, but sometimes developers explain the concepts and so forth without posting their entire source code. For that matter, occasionally both are available. I'm not really sure how this would work, but I figured it was at least worth posting and maybe it will spark an idea for someone else.

Posted by pbx, 1 year ago.

Enjoying looking through the sites. Another suggestion for the pile -- allow people to suggest sites that aren't their own. I'd like to see Cheeserater and Djangosnippets here, for instance...

Posted by ross, 1 year ago.

Fantastic suggestions guys. I've just implemented a few quick changes:

  1. You can't vote on your own websites - isn't it funny, the moment a site is created/verified, it gets one vote and one vote only!! :)
  2. The tag cloud at the right has a link to view a tag cloud of all tags used on the site, not just those used by at least 2 sites
  3. The comment preview now uses markdown, the same way the actual comments do.
  4. As per my recent blog post, I've also improved RSS feeds and visibility of source code for listed sites.

We're at 161 sites and have hit the Webthumbs monthly API limit (of 250 sites... the rest are from testing) so I'll shell out the coin tomorrow to get more credits, which should keep us going for quite a while. I've also manually created thumbnails for some sites where the webthumb API created blank thumbnails due to splash screens, fancy javascript, or flash-based sites.

All is going well so far!

Posted by ross, 1 year ago.

Another quick update: When submitting a site, you get taken to a 'thank you' page with a little note reminding you that there is manual validation of websites.

I've also added a page listing websites with source-code available which should receive a fair few visits, I would imagine.

Lastly for tonight, I've updated the submission page with a bit more information - namely, requesting non-english sites to put their language as a tag (for easily finding all the spanish sites, for example) and requesting descriptions in English (or, at least, English translations of descriptions).

Posted by harpo2, 7 months ago.

Cool, nice work. I think it's definitely coming along nicely! :^)

Posted by ross, 1 week, 6 days ago.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!