I’m not sure how many other large sites use Mephisto, but I managed to deploy it to the-leaky-cauldron.org the other day (after lots of heavy modding to get things like polls and article ratings working). Leaky gets about 3 million unique visitors a month – and with 9,000 articles and over 300,000 comments (not all of which have converted yet) I thought I’d let you know. —Mephisto group message by Nick Poulden.
I’m not sure, but I think that’s one of the largest Mephisto installations around. Great job, Nick Poulden!
Know how it is deployed?
Nope, but I added a link to the mephisto group thread so you can keep track.
l want a shoping cart
Hi, I actually worked on a small part of the new Leaky site with Nick (we run a rails company in the UK…). Nick posted a little about the deployment environment over on the Mephisto group thread but we’d be happy to answer any questions…
I think the gist is that although it was painful getting some bits to play ball with Mephisto (article rating and the AJAXy bits weren’t much fun!), overall it’s paid off and proven an enormous benefit over the old PHP site. We wrote most of the extended functionality into mephisto plugins so although they’re mostly quite specialised we can clean them up and release them if there’s any demand for those features.
Cheers,
Ed Spencer
Please release them! Even if there aren’t many people clamoring for them by name, it would be a great resource to stimulate creativity and a reference for others trying to do similar stuff with Mephisto.
Great work by the way!
Nevermind large deployments, howabout this deployment? The demo site does not work (cannot log in) and screenshots are missing?
Oh, something’s wrong with DNS I think. It’s pointing back to this server, so you’re trying to hack into the main mephisto blog :)