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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by thinkxl »

bigethan wrote: post #10
thinkxl wrote: post #2

I should explain what is this about. Frontends intention is to be a community of passionate front-end developers and web designers focused on help each other, discuss and share interesting things about Front-end development and web design. Is similar to Hacker News, Lobsters, Growth Hackers and Designer News or that was my idea. Is built on top of http://www.telesc.pe/ using https://www.meteor.com/ . Is in early deve…

Neat! I hand't heard of Telescope before, and it looks sweet (a lot like Discourse in some ways). How much code did you have to write to get this up and running?

I just had to create a package with my CSS: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/custom-themes/

and tweak two lines of JavaScript to alter the number of results per day.

To install it I followed this:

http://www.telesc.pe/docs/installing-telescope/

Used this to deploy:

https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up

On a 1GB Ram 30GB SSD Disk node-v0.10.30 on Ubuntu 14.04 Digital Ocean droplet

And got the domain on google domains, and that's it.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by thespace123 »

thinkxl wrote: post #2

I should explain what is this about. Frontends intention is to be a community of passionate front-end developers and web designers focused on help each other, discuss and share interesting things about Front-end development and web design. Is similar to Hacker News, Lobsters, Growth Hackers and Designer News or that was my idea. Is built on top of http://www.telesc.pe/ using https://www.meteor.com/ . Is in early deve…

The Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by thinkxl »

thespace123 wrote: post #12
thinkxl wrote: post #2

I should explain what is this about. Frontends intention is to be a community of passionate front-end developers and web designers focused on help each other, discuss and share interesting things about Front-end development and web design. Is similar to Hacker News, Lobsters, Growth Hackers and Designer News or that was my idea. Is built on top of http://www.telesc.pe/ using https://www.meteor.com/ . Is in early deve…

The Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!

Yes is a known issue that I need to fix, sorry about that and thank you :)

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by kolev »

kolev wrote: post #16

Why nobody bothers to fix the ugly (i.e. misaligned with modern day design guidelines) out-of-the-box Telescope theme? I see a bunch of sites popping up with empty hopes to build new communities with a domain and little effort?

Why not use Lobsters (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters), instead, which is kinda active at https://lobste.rs/ and has been around for a couple of years if not more?

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by thinkxl »

kolev wrote: post #16

Why nobody bothers to fix the ugly (i.e. misaligned with modern day design guidelines) out-of-the-box Telescope theme? I see a bunch of sites popping up with empty hopes to build new communities with a domain and little effort?

Why not? in the mean time I just did it as an experiment that came out as a comment on freenode ##frontend, if it goes well in a month or so, I will take some time from my current paid work to create a custom theme for this site.

Empty hopes? do you have data to confirm that?

little effort? we are not that experts as you

Also I will just drop this just here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

Thanks for your comment :)

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

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Post by thinkxl »

kolev wrote: post #17
kolev wrote: post #16

Why nobody bothers to fix the ugly (i.e. misaligned with modern day design guidelines) out-of-the-box Telescope theme? I see a bunch of sites popping up with empty hopes to build new communities with a domain and little effort?

Why not use Lobsters ( https://github.com/jcs/lobsters ), instead, which is kinda active at https://lobste.rs/ and has been around for a couple of years if not more?

I wanted to try MeteorJS, personal preference
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