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This is a tutorial we are using for Django Girls workshops
http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/
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PythonAnywhere has eu severs for Europe now with a different prefix - login fails #1740

Closed DataCerealz closed 2 years ago

DataCerealz commented 2 years ago

Issue description

The tutorial mentions www.pythonanywhere.com everywhere. Which is correct. However, on the website of PythonAnywhere there is NO indication that there are different servers available now! There is no button to switch from "international" to "Europe". However, there are two identical websites: www.pythonanywhere.com eu.pythonanywhere.com

An account that is created on the EU version can't login on the international version and vice versa. However, when login fails there is only "Wrong username/password"-error displayed. This caused a lot of confusion among coaches and participants for our event in the beginning. We could resolve this quickly but it might drive people crazy that suddenly their account "isn't working" anymore for no apparent reason. Again: on the PythonAnywhere Website there is NO indication on which server your account is or on which of the two websites you actually are.

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das-g commented 2 years ago

Huh, I wasn't aware of that either. Is that new? Does one ever get to eu.pythonanywhere.com from the tutorial, e.g. through a region-dependent redirect?

Maybe raise that issue also with PythonAnywhere, as this could confuse not just Django Girls participants, but also other users of their service(s).

nikhiljohn10 commented 2 years ago

According to the post by pythonanywhere.com, it is clear that we should not use eu.pythonanywhere.com at all for tutorials. It is created for individuals/companies who have concerns with GDPR compliance. It is recommended that everyone else use www.pythonanywhere.com. So I guess this issue can be considered resolved.

das-g commented 2 years ago

Ah, so participants probably ended up there not by automatic redirect from URLs linked in the Django Girls tutorial, but maybe by web search?

das-g commented 2 years ago

I'm closing this for now. @DataCerealz please re-open and/or comment if you think any improvements regarding this are needed (and if so, please specify which ones).