Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Kevin Dangoor

TurboGears going like gangbusters

After the slashdotting, Ian Landsman wondered what the extended effect of the slashdotting would be. Certainly, after serving more than 13,000 views of the screencast on Monday, things have tapered off. The 20 Minute Wiki is still getting 1,000 views a day! (That’s 80GB per day, for those watching their waistline bandwidth usage). I haven’t had a chance to do a total tally, but I’m guessing that the screencast is up to 25,000 views.

The main TurboGears discussion Google Group has added about 100 people since Monday, crossing 350 earlier today. The announcements list crossed 100 today. Mailing list traffic is increasing, and people are coming up with some cool stuff. Interesting things are taking shape for 0.9!

Thanks to all of the people putting their energy into TurboGears!

3 Responses to “TurboGears going like gangbusters”

42 on October 14th, 2005 8:08 pm:

Keeping up with TurboGears et al

New release of TurboGears with lots of goodies. See the TurboGears 0.8a1 Changelog.

phreaki on October 16th, 2005 10:51 pm:

I know I’ve sent a lot of people onto the pages, and asked
them to watch the tutorial. Sad to say it didn’t work, as most of them
don’t know python and really just say:

‘Seems like something else to learn and get used to’

So maybe for every 10 that tries to advocate another 3 will like it
and advocate another 5 at least.

Or maybe slashdot is that big to pull in that many new non-advocated users.

tazzzzz on October 16th, 2005 11:16 pm:

Word of mouth is ultimately very important, but Slashdot really is quite huge for spreading the word about something quickly. In one day, the video was viewed twice as many times as it had been the previous 3 weeks.