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Always nice to see more HN-style open-source apps. I hope if it's alright if I plug mine, an HN clone built with Meteor:

http://telesc.pe

And by the way, if you like this kind of layout with the link on the left, this alternative HN user interface is very well made: http://hn.premii.com/

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I like it a lot but there seems to be some performance problem when you have a couple of comments there, for example http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/a05eba73-cdd9-4d64-933d-2586ffc5... takes a couple of seconds to load on my 27" iMac in Firefox and even shows me the beachball of death for a couple of seconds before it gets rendered. It only has 335 comments.

It's loading ok for me. But in any case, this demo is running on a free instance hosted by Meteor (the company), it would probably run much better on a production instance.

hmmmm if the wait is being caused by processing of the heavy meteor frontend code, as I suspect, then "it works fine for me" is actually an indictment, and "it's on a free server" is no defense.

Do you know of any alternatives that has a browser-plugin similar to getpocket.com or sendtoinc.com?

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