Nice. But launching a new service in 2017 without forced HTTPS or even HTTPS support is a no go. Please set this up. Letsencrypt does not cost a dollar.
I dont have any user logins at this point. I'll https once that is supported
Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
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Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before I scroll down, every story on the page is similar perspectives on the same event (Trump at the UN), and the top story is posted by Shareblue. Maybe this is a fluke, but it's a terrible first impression for me as a user, and I won't be checking it again anytime soon.
Sorry about that. Thats what is trending at this point. Im looking into ways to group similar news to avoid these echos
Ah, I was talking about memeorandum.com, not your site. Sorry for the confusion!
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry about that. Thats what is trending at this point. Im looking into ways to group similar news to avoid these echos
Ah, I was talking about memeorandum.com, not your site. Sorry for the confusion!
Correct, memorandum is designed for an audience that is sufficiently familiar with the reporting process that it understands and values that presentation.
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#54Today, after the Mexico city earthquake, there where 50 buildings collapsed, probably hundreds of people dead, and a volcano erupting... but your "news" site doesn't show any of it... sorry but your site is a miss
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like both are news aggregators themselves. It kind of makes it tricky. Let me look into it.
realclearpolitics.com would be another good source. re: these being difficult because they are aggregators, could you just scrape the sites to find what they are linking to, then perform the same "social share is rank" logic to them? newswhip.com is a site that does something similar, but it's very expensive. I would love an alternative! I read many different sources, but I'm always curious what the "average" person…
So currently it does fetch most of the sources aggregated there such as NYT, Washington Post and Im working on adding more, but doing one more hop with another news aggregator sounds less efficient.
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#56I am much more interested in "news" that is actionable (not about Trump, not about natural disasters, ...)
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#57Dude was this created in meteor.js? -Love it!, the minimalistic design, and saved from information overload is appreciated. Mind sharing the snippets?
Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
#58Today, after the Mexico city earthquake, there where 50 buildings collapsed, probably hundreds of people dead, and a volcano erupting... but your "news" site doesn't show any of it... sorry but your site is a miss
The story is covered in the new section, about 8 items down when I looked. Either way, the app is ranking the stories based on shares - some things will trend more than others and float to the top, and other things might get hidden. Perhaps the creator could implement a way to pin stories that are obviously newsworthy to the top to prevent them being overshadowed by less newsworthy items. This does introduce a level of curation to the app, which may take more time than the maintainer wishes to devote to this project.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
realclearpolitics.com would be another good source. re: these being difficult because they are aggregators, could you just scrape the sites to find what they are linking to, then perform the same "social share is rank" logic to them? newswhip.com is a site that does something similar, but it's very expensive. I would love an alternative! I read many different sources, but I'm always curious what the "average" person…
So currently it does fetch most of the sources aggregated there such as NYT, Washington Post and Im working on adding more, but doing one more hop with another news aggregator sounds less efficient.
Those aggregators linking to the article could be counted as a "super vote"
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#60not bad! but for sanity on desktop #feed { overflow-y:hidden }
Fixed