also people are not couraged to join the irc room. that's one of the reasons.
On Apr 4, 12:26 pm, selecta <gr...@delarue-berlin.de> wrote: > ah i was just about to complain that the main page still links to a > strange irc channel, but that finally changed > i guess this is one of the reasons why there are so few people in the > irc channel, it was just not linked properly > > On Apr 4, 9:38 am, Mengu <whalb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > it's because they beat us on the number of irc users. :) > > > as of april 4, 2011, 10:33 am gmt +2, #django has 289 users, > > #rubyonrails has 498 users, #web2py has 16 users. we are definitely > > more than that. just come to irc, especially yourself massimo. of > > course we cannot underestimate the number of posts in all 3 mailing > > lists. it's not a secret that web2py mailing list is the most active > > one among the python web frameworks. pylons, pyramid, turbogears, > > web.py, etc have very very low activity. > > > On Apr 4, 3:32 am, Esteban Ordano <este...@ordano.com.ar> wrote: > > > > Congratulations! > > > > I'm really fond of the web2py framework. In fact, after having used both > > > web2py and django, I am very biased towards web2py. I think that you > > > simply > > > *get* it, and you did a excellent job, and you keep on doing great work. > > > > But I think that this has to be taken with extreme caution: What does this > > > *really* say about web2py? > > > > Most of all, beware: I think that a very big pro for django is that in > > > stackoverflow.com there are 16k questions on Django, so this may mean > > > that a > > > lot of questions get answered there instead of being asked in the django > > > mailing list. > > > > Regards, > > > Esteban > > > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Massimo Di Pierro < > > > > massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Here is another plot adding Ruby on Rails data (rubyonrails-talk) > > > > >http://i.imgur.com/sPLzH.png > > > > > we passed them too as messages/month since Dec 2010. > > > > According to this (http://rubyonrails.org/community) rubyonrails-talk > > > > is the main Rails list for users. > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On Apr 3, 7:08 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I don't have exact numbers, but over the past 11 months, I think the > > > > web2py > > > > > Google Group membership has grown by over 50%. By contrast, it appears > > > > the > > > > > Django Google Group membership has grown by only about 10%-15%. I > > > > > guess > > > > > there's a reason there were three April Fools jokes on Reddit > > > > > targeting > > > > > web2py. :) > > > > > > On Sunday, April 3, 2011 7:53:35 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > > > > I mined some data from: > > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/about > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about > > > > > > > This web2py users group had 56,283 messages posted since 1/1/2009. > > > > > > The > > > > > > Django-users list had 51,119 over the same time period. > > > > > > > Here is a plot showing the messages/month in the two users groups > > > > > >http://i.imgur.com/GHcce.png > > > > > > As you can see the surpass is significative and consistent since Oct > > > > > > 2009. > > > > > > > Now we know why some people are upset about web2py ;-) > > > > > > > Congratulations to all of you! > > > > > > > Massimo
