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

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Post by sgdesign »

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?

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

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

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Post by leopoldo »

sgdesign wrote: post #21
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?

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

Why not upvote kolev?

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

#23

Post by bvaldivielso »

leopoldo wrote: post #22
sgdesign wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

Why not upvote kolev?

Because he will not be able to see how many upvotes that comment got then

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

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Post by dkuntz2 »

leopoldo wrote: post #22
sgdesign wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

Why not upvote kolev?

Because most people can't see comment scores other than their own.

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

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Post by kolev »

thinkxl wrote: post #18
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…

I think you misunderstand MVP. It's not using somebody else's code and slapping a new domain on it without doing a little effort to customize. Even MVP landing pages look different. And, I think you misunderstand MVP. Instead of getting offensive at critical people - you should rather treasure feedback, especially negative - the guys with the positive feedback (possibly) already bought in. Again, when I see a website looking and behaving like a thousand other ones, I won't revisit, honestly, and I'm not alone. And why would I when you show no attention to detail and no energy to create and keep alive something trying to be different among the million other websites out there?

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

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Post by kolev »

sgdesign wrote: post #21
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?

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

Don't get offended! I abused the word "ugly", I apologize, but Telescope is unlike the minimalistic looks of Hacker News, Lobsters, Monocle (http://monocle.io/), Reddit, and Product Hunt. The looks of up/down arrows are inconsistent between homepage and comments. The buttons on the homepage on the right are too big and not modern-looking. Background of a comment and page should not differ (unless you have a fix width design - then what's beyond the fixed width is acceptable to in high contrast.

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

#30

Post by kolev »

thinkxl wrote: post #19
kolev wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm sure. By the way, this is the second time I'm bringing this on Hacker News - it's Meteor, not MeteorJS. Please, honor the branding that the authors have chosen (after a careful consideration).
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