Now that there is no admin anymore I need a quick way to check the total snippet count, to see if something goes wrong or I'm DOSed.

dpaste/templates/dpaste/about.html

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 {% extends "dpaste/base.html" %}
 
+{% load i18n %}
+
 {% block title %}About dpaste.de{% endblock %}
 {% block headline %}About dpaste.de{% endblock %}
 {% block dpaste_nav_about %}active{% endblock %}
 
 {% block page %}
+
 <h3>API</h3>
 
 {# Just put the script in dpaste and copy the source node #}
@@ -16,30 +19,43 @@
 <p>Or you could use <code>curl</code>:
 <code>alias dpaste="curl -F 'content=&lt;-' http://dpaste.de/api/"</code></p>
 
-<hr>
 
-<h3>Applications using the API:</h3>
+<div class="row-fluid">
+    <div class="span5">
+        <h3>Applications using the API:</h3>
 
-<ul>
+        <ul>
             <li><a href="https://github.com/bartTC/dpasteGUI/wiki">dpasteGUI</a>, a OS X interface</li>
             <li><a href="https://github.com/bartTC/SubDpaste">a dpaste Sublime 2 plugin</a></li>
             <li><a href="http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/dpaste_de">Marmalade</a>, a Emacs plugin</li>
-</ul>
+        </ul>
+    </div>
+    <div class="span4">
+        <p>{% blocktrans %}There are {{ total }} snippets in the database. The most popular languages are:{% endblocktrans %}</p>
+        <table class="table">
+            {% for s in stats %}
+            <tr>
+                <th>{{ s.lexer|upper }}</th>
+                <td>{{ s.count }}</th>
+            </tr>
+            {% endfor %}
+        </table>
+    </div>
 
+    <div class="span3">
+        <h3>Imprint</h3>
 
-<hr/>
-
-<h3>Imprint</h3>
-
-<p><strong>Address:</strong></p>
-<p>
+        <p><strong>Address:</strong></p>
+        <p>
             Martin Mahner<br/>
             Lauterbacher Str. 4<br/>
             DE-18581 Putbus<br/>
             Germany
-</p>
+        </p>
 
-<p><strong>Jabber/E-Mail:</strong></p>
-<p><a href="mailto:martin@mahner.org">martin@mahner.org</a></p>
+        <p><strong>Jabber/E-Mail:</strong></p>
+        <p><a href="mailto:martin@mahner.org">martin@mahner.org</a></p>
+    </div>
+</div>
 
 {% endblock %}

dpaste/urls/__init__.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 urlpatterns = patterns(
     '',
-    url(r'^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dpaste/about.html'), name='about'),
+    url(r'^about/$', 'dpaste.views.about', name='about'),
     url(r'^', include('dpaste.urls.dpaste_api')),
     url(r'^', include('dpaste.urls.dpaste')),
 )

dpaste/views.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist, MultipleObjectsReturned
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.utils import simplejson
+from django.db.models import Count
 from django.views.defaults import page_not_found as django_page_not_found, \
                                   server_error as django_server_error
 
@@ -17,6 +18,19 @@ from dpaste.highlight import guess_code_lexer, \
 
 import difflib
 
+def about(request, template_name='dpaste/about.html'):
+    template_context = {
+        'total': Snippet.objects.count(),
+        'stats': Snippet.objects.values('lexer').annotate(
+            count=Count('lexer')).order_by('-count')[:5],
+    }
+
+    return render_to_response(
+        template_name,
+        template_context,
+        RequestContext(request)
+    )
+
 def snippet_new(request, template_name='dpaste/snippet_new.html'):
 
     if request.method == "POST":
@@ -169,6 +183,7 @@ def guess_lexer(request):
     return HttpResponse(response)
 
 
+
 def page_not_found(request, template_name='dpaste/404.html'):
     return django_page_not_found(request, template_name)