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Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)
- michelson01 19y agoyeah, this is using alexa rankings, so it's far from perfect and misses a lot of other data, so take it for what it's worth.
- dshah 19y agoAlexa did a major update to it's ranking algorithm and source data yesterday. It's supposedly a lot better.
- paul9290 19y agoyes ... though it depends who you ask. Many like hacker news rankings went down. Was 14K two days ago... now 77K, while looking down next to my alexa toolbar ranking of this site I have the compete toolbar that says hacker news is ranked 25K. Though compete only measures US traffic, best of my knowledge. Scribd was ranked 900 something now its 500 something. Congrat to Ed K and the Scribd team!
- michelson01 19y agoScribd is growing quickly and actively hiring all kinds of developers (ruby on rails, flash/actionscript, C++, etc) so please contact us, hackers@scribd.com, if you're interested. Check out our jobs page here: http://www.scribd.com/static/jobs http://www.scribd.com/static/jobs Here's a link to our traffic graph on alexa: http://snipurl.com/24rqq http://snipurl.com/24rqq
- maurycy 19y agoWhat about yellowpages.com?
- mhartl 19y agoThey're #2 according to the article.
- sdurkin 19y agoThe first time I used Scribd's iPaper I thought, "This is magic." Its one of those products that, as a web developer, you'd have to be stupid not to use. Its simply that much better than its competitors. Congratulations, guys.
- ken 19y agoCan you explain the magic? I just don't get it. (Maybe I am stupid; I'll admit that much.) From what I've seen, it looks like a Flash plugin to view PDFs. It breaks my scroll-wheel and keyboard shortcuts, uses funny-looking controls, and it takes as long to load the Flash plugin as it would have to just load the whole PDF. I always edit the URL so I can view the PDF normally. I don't know why I'd want to do this to my users.
- xlnt 19y agodoesn't in-browser pdf viewing suck apart from safari?
- mattmaroon 19y agoWhat was previously?
- PStamatiou 19y agotwitter?
- markbao 19y agoScribd looks great, but Basecamp is down at 70262, probably since it uses subdomains. Full aggregated traffic for Basecamp and other 37signals properties would probably put it higher up on the list.
- mattmaroon 19y agoHighly doubt it. They have a lot of signups, but I bet a lot fewer active users. Scribd claims over 17m uniques a month. Though I bet 37 Signals financial statement looks a lot better.
- blader 19y agoThe two largest Rails deployments on the internet are not on that list.
- pg 19y agoWow, I didn't know that. This is a handy site.
- rokhayakebe 19y agoDouble Wow, I didn't know Sribd is bigger than Yellow Pages
- tlrobinson 19y agoThat's great for Scribd, not so great for Rails. The largest (known) Rails site isn't even in the top 500! I'm curious how this compares to other technologies. Someone should write a script that crawls the top sites attempting to detect the technologies they're built on. I can think of a few heuristics, like URL patterns and file extensions (.php, etc) and cookies (PHPSESSID for PHP, _session_id for Rails, JSESSIONID for J2EE, etc)
- richcollins 19y agoThat doesn't count desktop twitter clients. It also doesn't count Facebook apps.