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Digg For Django Is Here

By Paul Kenjora | March 28, 2008

For a long time the Django community has relied on sites like Digg, DZone, and my favorite Django Projects Community. The former are too generic for the rapidly growing yet dedicated Django community, while the latter lacked sufficient organization. Don’t get me wrong its great to get on Digg and the Django Project Community is an excellent, so I thought why not combine the two. Plus the timing is excellent, Antonio Cangiano’s Django’s tipping point is one of many signs that the Django community is ready for its own social bookmarking site.

DjangoPost.com

The new Digg for Django is DjangoPost.com. Its got all the features of Digg and its geared specifically for the Django community. Written 100% in Django, the site has features that are above and beyond other social bookmarking sites. For example:

I’m definitely looking for articles, its meant to be unobtrusive and help the community. I’ve had a great experience with the Django community over the past couple of years, having seen some of the awesome contributors out there I hope the community benefits and grows. Visit DjangoPost.com, get the widget, and share with the Django community.

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  • marc
    Anyone here tried to visit http://mvcforge.com ? If you are a web developer who had been using MVC web frameworks like Django, Codeigniter, RoR, etc, i think you can find it useful for you..
  • Unable to click on the comments, it just brings me back to the front page. Firefox 3b2 under Ubuntu 8.04. Design comments: the vote thing I don't really care about so could be more discreet. I would switch the light/dark blue around between title and Comments/Details. It could be a bit more readable but for me the priority would be having a RSS feed.

    It's a good idea. Many people have abandoned Digg since it got taken over by Huffinton Post, and Dzone is sweet presentation-wise but the links posted are .Net-centric at the moment. Reddit has good Django content but the RSS feed won't take into account your preferences which limits the use of the site. Priority one is to get it stable, then clean up the look, and then keep posting content until it gets momentum and the community start taking over! I wish you the best of luck and look forward to contributing in the future.

    Phillip.
  • Shev
    While trying to vote + on a front-page article, I saw the following error in Firebug:

    uncaught exception: [Exception... "Not enough arguments" nsresult: "0x80570001 (NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.djangopost.com/js/vote.js :: voteCall :: line 15" data: no]
  • Urban,

    When you say source publicly available, you mean the djangopost source? To some extent it already is, this blog has 90% of the code in the site distributed through various articles. Contact me directly for anything above and beyond that.

    Thanks for the comments everyone, I'm looking for design ideas (maybe a cool widget). Open ID coming soon...
  • Shane
    Good first start. A couple things that would make the experience better:

    1. Link the 'Django Post' text (top-left) to http://www.djangopost.com/. That way it's easy to get back to the root of the site.

    2. OpenID support would be *awesome*.

    3. A syndication feed would be *awesome* as well.

    Definitely good first start. Keep it up!
  • Kyle
    Useful idea, but the design definitely *needs* improvement. Seems very hard to read.
  • casseen
    Great work, I dont like the design of the "post counter" though
  • urban
    Will the source be public available?
  • What about OpenID support?
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