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What besides reddit?

There is a list at the bottom of this page: https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/

    Disqus
    Instagram
    Knight Foundation
    MacArthur Foundation
    Mozilla
    National Geographic
    Open Knowledge Foundation
    Pinterest
    Open Stack

If the answer here is to be believed, Pinterest has consciously moved away from Django.

https://www.quora.com/Would-Pinterest-consider-Flask-in-plac...

Yes, but that doesn't matter much, since they got to billion valuations just fine WITH Django.

Only one of the main Open Stack projects uses Django - and it is a complete pain to work on as a result.

Most of the projects in OpenStack use Flask or Pecan - or Falcon for one or two of the more performance sensitive APIs

Having used Django and that project (Horizon) extensively, I think that Horizon is not a pain to work on as a result of Django, it was just badly written.

Reddit uses Pylons iirc

But see for yourself: https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Interesting. Looking around because I thought it was ruby at one point, but it turns out it was originally written in Lisp. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

I don't know where I got that idea from.

And they blogged about moving to typescript for frontend at least

I believe python.org, too, is built on Django[0].

Also, here's an interesting thread on Artima: "Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python!"[1] by Guido van van Rossum[sic]. It's 11 years old (a lot has changed since?), but interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg

[1]: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146149

Reddit isn't powered by Django as far as I know. But Instagram is and I believe Pinterest was/is.

Nov 2016 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-switched-ou...

Backend is still django though

The Pinterest web backend has some vestiges of Django for form validations and stuff, but IIRC it's mostly custom at this point.

PyCon's keynote this year was given by Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66XoCk79kjM

Kept a small list here, including codebase changes made for scaling and references:

https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/

Instagram, Disqus, Bitbucket, Pinterest.

Apologies in advanced for any marketing copies you don't want to read. The information is there.

Instagram is one, I'm sure there's others [1].

[1] https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-...

Reddit is Pylons based. Instagram is Django though.

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