more Russian-speakers are using DW

[charmian]

I've heard that more Russian speakers are using DW, and reportedly some English-speakers are complaining about it. They don't like the way that the Latest Posts page is not 100% English.

Actually, I think an influx of Russian users is not only not bad, but potentially a good thing for DW. The growth of English-speaking users IMHO seemed to have had plateaued prior to the recent DDoS. With a new group of users coming in, there's the potential for viral growth there as well. There seem to be at least 2K of Russian users, although I'm not sure how much that is relatively. However, growth may be limited by the fact that the site and its documentation are all in English.

Comments

[flourish]

Some DW users are douchebags! I'm glad to see this is happening.

[synecdochic]

I really do wish we could offer the site in other languages! There's a ton of reasons (at least six huge ones and a bunch of minor ones) why we can't, though, and while all of them are solveable eventually, they're not the kind of things we can fix until we're a) larger and b) more profitable :(