I have run some tests and reddit.com/r/Python pays no role in web2py popularity (positive or negative). Here are some statistics:
Number of http requests: 29/Mar/2011 82379 30/Mar/2011 81757 31/Mar/2011 88105 01/Apr/2011 72613 <<< nothing happened 02/Apr/2011 51305 Number of requests from distinct users: 29/Mar/2011 2245 30/Mar/2011 2192 31/Mar/2011 2136 01/Apr/2011 2044 02/Apr/2011 1526 Number of downloads from distinct users: 29/Mar/2011 188 30/Mar/2011 170 31/Mar/2011 162 01/Apr/2011 150 02/Apr/2011 97 These numbers are typical. Weekends are 30% down. While news posted on reddit.com/r/Python do not cause us any spike (up or down), news on the front page of reddit.com/r/Programming did cause our numbers to spike, recently. That is because the number of people who read /r/Python is very small and many accounts are probably created by the same few people. And they all seem to have made their mind (one way or another). /r/Programming has a much larger community. Massimo
