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Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

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50 pointsashwin_kumar15 comments

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

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

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/meteor-0-8-update-next-steps/

And if you want to see a working example of Telescope I suggest checking out http://crater.io, a community about Meteor itself.

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

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!

Interesting, but it the app is soo slow!

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!

I don't understand how this is news... It's been out there for months. It is much more interesting the "Made with Meteor" http://madewith.meteor.com/

This application is partially cloned in the excellent Discover Meteor book(http://discovermeteor.com ... written by the same folks).

Thanks! If anybody's interested, that clone (basically a much simpler version) is open-source too:

demo: http://meteor-book-chapter14-2.meteor.com/ source: https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope

Just out of curiosity I think I've read somewhere that HN is written in Common Lisp. Or Am I just in pure delusion?

Arc, which is a dialect of lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

Soooo slow

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