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

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

frontends.org

56 pointsthinkxl35 comments

I should explain what is this about.

Frontends intention is to be a community of passionate front-end developers and web designers focused on help each other, discuss and share interesting things about Front-end development and web design.

Is similar to Hacker News, Lobsters, Growth Hackers and Designer News or that was my idea.

Is built on top of http://www.telesc.pe/ using https://www.meteor.com/.

Is in early development so you will find some bugs.

Any feedback is really appreciated.

Looks good - bookmarked! Are you targeting a similar demographic to /r/webdev?

One bug I have encountered is on clicking upvote and unregistered, I am redirected to frontends.COM

it should be fixed now.

Regarding to your question, I have no specific demographic target, just general Front-end developers that are willing to learn, help or give feedback, it has only two weeks I have nothing specified yet about demographics.

Neat! I hand't heard of Telescope before, and it looks sweet (a lot like Discourse in some ways). How much code did you have to write to get this up and running?

I just had to create a package with my CSS: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/custom-themes/

and tweak two lines of JavaScript to alter the number of results per day.

To install it I followed this:

http://www.telesc.pe/docs/installing-telescope/

Used this to deploy:

https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up

On a 1GB Ram 30GB SSD Disk node-v0.10.30 on Ubuntu 14.04 Digital Ocean droplet

And got the domain on google domains, and that's it.

The Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!

Yes is a known issue that I need to fix, sorry about that and thank you :)

Are meteor sites typically slow? The only ones I've visited are.

Not sure, I feel mine sometimes very slow, here is a list of Meteor/Telescope sites:

- http://www.bootstrappers.io/ - http://dataforgood.co/ - http://sidebar.io/

You can check if is only mine or all Meteor related.

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 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).

Got it, Meteor.

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 for your comment :)

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?

The creator of Bootstrappers.io managed to get 700 emails by launching "a website looking and behaving like a thousand other ones":

http://blog.bootstrappers.io/how-i-bootstrapped-bootstrapper...

I appreciate that you're trying to give feedback, but in this case I think you're extrapolating a bit too much from your own (perfectly valid) opinion. Just because you don't see the value doesn't mean plenty of other people won't :)

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

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

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.

I'm not offended, thanks for the extra feedback :)

Although I do want to point out that Telescope also comes with a minimally styled base theme that was specifically made to let people customize it however they want: http://telescope-base.meteor.com/

Congrats mate, it's great. Bookmarked already. I'll let you know if I hit a bug. Don't take negative comments seriously. Fail or not it's product you've made.

Thank you, I appreciate your comment :)

Keeps crashing chrome on my ipad air

Whoa, good work! Bookmarked

Thanks! :)

This is the first hn clone i've bookmarked :)

One thing I would say, however, is that while meteor is cool, having a simple server-side-rendered app would be way way faster, and way simpler, for the aim that you're going for.

Thanks and yes, I will keep that in mind.

Crashed ios safari :-/

lol, just by opening it?

Congrats thinkxl!

Thanks :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com