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Amazing. I've only dabbled with Meteor lightly, but this takes it to a whole new level. Telescope is so fast, you've done an exceptional job building this my ha
by DigitalSea 14y ago
Amazing. I've only dabbled with Meteor lightly, but this takes it to a whole new level. Telescope is so fast, you've done an exceptional job building this my hat goes off to you and thank you for open sourcing it so others like myself can learn how to build a Meteor app.
My only concern is what about search engine visibility? If I were to build an app like this with Meteor would Google see the page content?
- tmeasday 14y agoHi, thanks, we appreciate that! Meteor does have the spiderable package (http://meteor.com/blog/2012/08/09/search-engine-optimization http://meteor.com/blog/2012/08/09/search-engine-optimization) which means that URLs such as http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/08d0105f-0a1c-43a1-b11a-5ba8875e11e9 http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/08d0105f-0a1c-43a1-b11a-5ba8875e... will be indexed by google. (Actually they won't because we haven't enabled spiderable in this deployment of Telescope, but it would be a one-line change to do so).
- DigitalSea 14y agoOh wow, I did not know that. Well I'm sold, thanks for replying. Meteor looks to be a pretty promising way to build realtime applications, I see what all of the fuss is about now.
- dbaupp 14y agoNot sure how configurable this is, but would it be possible to have less ridiculous URLs? An idea might be to take the hash (it looks like you're using some sort of hash?) and then encode it base-36 like reddit, or even, (for a bit of individuality and human memorability) take a list of some number of words (preferably large) and encode it in that base where the digits are the words, e.g base-3 with 0 = telescope, 1 = dog, 2 = house, and so 3 = DogTelescope, 5 = (3+2) = DogHouse, 7 = (2*3+1) = HouseDog etc.
- sgdesign 14y agoYeah, we're using the default Mongo IDs but we could probably come up with a better URL scheme. I'll add it to the to-do.
- EwanG 14y agoCurious about your "fast" comment. Tried to get in twice with the "Login with Twitter" option and things just spun and spun until they timed out. What are you commenting on? Speed of adding new articles or... ?
- sgdesign 14y agoWe might be hitting the limits of Heroku's free instance… Try http://demo2.telesc.pe/ http://demo2.telesc.pe/ or http://demo3.telesc.pe/ http://demo3.telesc.pe/ if the site's demo link doesn't work.