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The coolest thing I ever made

48 points by aclark 15y ago

heelhook 15y ago
Cool site. You should really put overflow: hidden to .sidebar. Man, we should really start to use a few different themes for bootstrap, all new sites are starting to look alike... a lot!
- aclark 15y ago
  Done, thanks! Twitter bootstrap is awesome. I don't even care that it looks like all the other bootstrap sites. (Same thing happened with Plone 10 years ago.)
- oinopion 15y ago
  Looks especially like http://opencomparison.org/ http://opencomparison.org/ :D
  - aclark 15y ago
    Hah! Yeah I just noticed that after the fact, even though I've been to that site numerous times :-\
po 15y ago
May I suggest downplaying the downloads stat? I'm assuming you get this from summing up the downloads on pypi but it only sort-of correlates with usage. Many people with pip/virtualenv will download the same packages over and over as they redeploy. It also tends to favor old projects. I think a better metric for popularity would be a blend of activity in the source code repos, activity on mailing lists, wikis, blog postings etc. I liked djangopackages' use of a "I use this" metric because it helped me make comparisons across github and bitbucket. Much harder to gather but much more useful. Edit: Also another issue with downloads can be seen with something like the Requests library. It has 40k downloads. Is that a lot? What do you compare it to? For me the important questions are: are people moving to it or away from it? Is it active or not? How popular is it in comparison to other libraries that do similar things? Good luck on this project. It seems like a good start.
- aclark 15y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! It's true: the downloads number is, by itself, fairly meaningless (as I try to touch on here: http://pythonpackages.com/about http://pythonpackages.com/about). But I like the tongue-in-cheek aspect of it e.g. "My package has been downloaded X times!" The site started off being called "vanity" for this reason. As for djangopackages.com stats (now called django.opencomparison.org), I plan to integrate with it via their API. So I'm sure I'll be able to display the number of "I use this" and other useful stats.
  - joshu 15y ago
    I would love to include project activity in stackparts too. Sadly APIs are not always forthcoming.
    - aclark 15y ago
      What are you looking for? Both PyPI and opencomparison have decent offerings IMO
      - joshu 15y ago
        Yes, of course. I meant for non-python projects.
- aclark 15y ago
  OK I switched the focus to "favorites" instead of "downloads", does that help?
code_duck 15y ago
That's interesting, I think this could help me become more familiar with which packages are popular or rising in the Python world. For a developer who's generally out of the loop such as myself, that's great. Taking bug reports? I checked out mysqldb. It properly took me to a page with the correct capitalization, which indicates it found the package in some way: http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/mysqldb?entry=1 http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/mysqldb?entry=1 However, the 'View on PyPI' link goes to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQLdb http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQLdb which is a broken link. While the module is called MySQLdb, the package is called MySQL-python, and so page is at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/ Not sure how you can work that out, but hope this helps.
- aclark 15y ago
  Thanks! That's an interesting edge case I need to think about.
rfvtgb 15y ago
It seems I was not the only one to say ``antigravity''. http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/antigravity http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/antigravity
chrisjsmithuk 15y ago
The whole thing simply doesn't work in IE at all (IE9). It doesn't even make a good attempt at working in it. Perhaps against the grain but not everyone doesn't use Internet Explorer.

48 points by aclark 15y ago

Cool site. You should really put overflow: hidden to .sidebar. Man, we should really start to use a few different themes for bootstrap, all new sites are starting to look alike... a lot!

aclark 15y ago
Done, thanks! Twitter bootstrap is awesome. I don't even care that it looks like all the other bootstrap sites. (Same thing happened with Plone 10 years ago.)
oinopion 15y ago
Looks especially like http://opencomparison.org/ http://opencomparison.org/ :D
- aclark 15y ago
  Hah! Yeah I just noticed that after the fact, even though I've been to that site numerous times :-\

po 15y ago

May I suggest downplaying the downloads stat? I'm assuming you get this from summing up the downloads on pypi but it only sort-of correlates with usage. Many people with pip/virtualenv will download the same packages over and over as they redeploy. It also tends to favor old projects. I think a better metric for popularity would be a blend of activity in the source code repos, activity on mailing lists, wikis, blog postings etc. I liked djangopackages' use of a "I use this" metric because it helped me make comparisons across github and bitbucket. Much harder to gather but much more useful. Edit: Also another issue with downloads can be seen with something like the Requests library. It has 40k downloads. Is that a lot? What do you compare it to? For me the important questions are: are people moving to it or away from it? Is it active or not? How popular is it in comparison to other libraries that do similar things? Good luck on this project. It seems like a good start.

aclark 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! It's true: the downloads number is, by itself, fairly meaningless (as I try to touch on here: http://pythonpackages.com/about http://pythonpackages.com/about). But I like the tongue-in-cheek aspect of it e.g. "My package has been downloaded X times!" The site started off being called "vanity" for this reason. As for djangopackages.com stats (now called django.opencomparison.org), I plan to integrate with it via their API. So I'm sure I'll be able to display the number of "I use this" and other useful stats.
- joshu 15y ago
  I would love to include project activity in stackparts too. Sadly APIs are not always forthcoming.
  - aclark 15y ago
    What are you looking for? Both PyPI and opencomparison have decent offerings IMO
    - joshu 15y ago
      Yes, of course. I meant for non-python projects.
aclark 15y ago
OK I switched the focus to "favorites" instead of "downloads", does that help?

code_duck 15y ago

That's interesting, I think this could help me become more familiar with which packages are popular or rising in the Python world. For a developer who's generally out of the loop such as myself, that's great. Taking bug reports? I checked out mysqldb. It properly took me to a page with the correct capitalization, which indicates it found the package in some way: http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/mysqldb?entry=1 http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/mysqldb?entry=1 However, the 'View on PyPI' link goes to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQLdb http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQLdb which is a broken link. While the module is called MySQLdb, the package is called MySQL-python, and so page is at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/ Not sure how you can work that out, but hope this helps.

aclark 15y ago
Thanks! That's an interesting edge case I need to think about.

rfvtgb 15y ago

It seems I was not the only one to say ``antigravity''. http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/antigravity http://pythonpackages.com/pypi/antigravity

chrisjsmithuk 15y ago

The whole thing simply doesn't work in IE at all (IE9). It doesn't even make a good attempt at working in it. Perhaps against the grain but not everyone doesn't use Internet Explorer.