Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor • Hacker News Board

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by ashwin_kumar » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

sgdesign wrote: post #5

petercooper wrote: post #3

Original discussion 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032 .. it'd be interesting to hear how it's changed since then as I believe it's under active development :-)

A lot of things have changed. There are a lot more features now (things like invites, notifications, tags, more granular settings, RSS feeds, a simple API, etc.). Right now I'm working on making the app more modular by extracting these features into separate, oprtional packages. It will make the app even more customizable, and easier to maintain as well. You can read more about the roadmap here: http://telesc.pe/blog…

This is great. I really want to try Telescope for maintaining & tracking feature requests within our team.

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by coenhyde » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

Interesting, but it the app is soo slow!

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by chrismonsanto » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

vannevar wrote: post #2

But it's not really a clone unless the pagination times out. ;-)

It does have an implementation of "can't collapse comment threads", though.

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by bfrog » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 9:10 PM UTC

Soooo slow

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by SofiaBerlin » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

Here is a combination of social news and cryptocurrencies I did with Telescope last autumn: http://bloqchan.com/

It is democracy for capitalists - you vote with your money!

We are searching for somebody who would like to help us with developing and marketing (also rebranding and designing).

Next step is to integrate it with our Dogecoin browser wallet and make one-click sharing (while browsing) possible together with the already existing 'one-click' upvoting https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dogecoin-browser-w...

Ultimate goal is to let the tipping culture go mainstream and deeply revolutionize how content discovery + creation monetization works!

BTW: We are also developing a blockchain-based 'backend' for social news with integrated crypto-currency. Distributed and censorship-free.

Leave a message on bloqchan with your thoughts please!

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by nacs » Sat, Jun 07, 2014, 11:22 PM UTC

It creates a bad impression of Meteor when you click the first link in the demo that contains a couple hundred comments and the entire browser freezes for 8 seconds: http://demo.telesc.pe/

Don't make the mistake of trying to open the Firefox debugger on that page either or the freezing lasts even longer.

That one page makes 807 HTTP requests totaling 953KB to display about 20KB of text.

Re: Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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Post by sgdesign » Sun, Jun 08, 2014, 3:03 AM UTC

nacs wrote: post #16

It creates a bad impression of Meteor when you click the first link in the demo that contains a couple hundred comments and the entire browser freezes for 8 seconds: http://demo.telesc.pe/ Don't make the mistake of trying to open the Firefox debugger on that page either or the freezing lasts even longer. That one page makes 807 HTTP requests totaling 953KB to display about 20KB of text.

Part of this is that the demo is using a pretty old version of Telescope/Meteor (like 6 months back), and also that it's running on a free *.meteor.com instance that's not very powerful. I need to fix both of these, sorry about that!