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Show HN: Food News - HN Clone Built With Django and Drum, Uses Persona for Auth

84 points by hypertexthero 13y ago

selmnoo 13y ago
Good job, this is very cool! Maybe you want to use the triangle, that was featured on HN a few days ago :) -- http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh Is the source available for this anywhere? I would love to see some of it.
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Thank you! Credit for the bulk of the work must go to Stephen McDonald who made Mezzanine and Drum, of course. Blog post with more info here: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2013/10/intro-food-news/ http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2013/10/intro-food-news/ The source is here: https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn I'll check out the CSS triangle.
  - wikiburner 13y ago
    Very cool, thanks. I've been looking for something like this. I may fork it with a Disqus integration.
    - hypertexthero 13y ago
      Please do! I used Disqus (which I think is excellent) for another experiment I did (much worse than Stephen McDonald's work with Mezzanine/Drum!): https://github.com/hypertexthero/hir https://github.com/hypertexthero/hir - http://rome.hypertexthero.com/ http://rome.hypertexthero.com/ I often think about this, but at this time still prefer not using a third party for comments, especially on a site where the comments are so important.
      - wikiburner 13y ago
        Yep, I agree with you regarding third party comments for the most part, but I think by using Disqus there could be way less friction for account sign up in some circumstances. In my case, there's another site that I frequent that has a huge Disqus community, but it is desperately in need of social bookmarking functionality. I'm considering launching an independent site to provide it.
- Diederich 13y ago
  I'm super-excited about this site; I think it'll fill an important gap.
- thirdknife 13y ago
  Best part, find out healthy foods.
- Zoomla 13y ago
  the link that you provided is very broken in my Firefox (which doesn't mean it's broken for everybody of course)
  - hypertexthero 13y ago
    Can you please let me know the Firefox version & OS version?
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AndrewDucker 13y ago
Nice, smooth flow to it. It might be nice if rather than assigning you a random string as a username it used something like "Click here to set your user name".
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Thanks! Agreed and it's on the [todo list](https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do) I also should have figured out what was wrong with memcache before publishing. Server seems to be taking a beating right now. If it goes down, my apologies — working on it.
  - hypertexthero 13y ago
    Done, I think :) https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn/commit/f4fb16c07fdf122792b15328264970bcad26134f https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn/commit/f4fb16c07fdf12279...
dcarmo 13y ago
That is so cool, I was dying for a site like this.
- dcarmo 13y ago
  I'd suggest for you to change the title of the page so it looks better on my bookmark bar. :)
  - hypertexthero 13y ago
    Agreed and done :)
gnur 13y ago
Looks nice, upvoting without logging in does have a small mistake though: "You must logged in."
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out. I think the messages are inheriting from Mezzanine's messages app here https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/generic/views.py#L65 https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanin... - will fix it.
  - hypertexthero 13y ago
    Fixed and @stephenmcd already merged the change, most excellent!
jlehman 13y ago
This is great. Thanks for putting this together!
sgdesign 13y ago
Quick plug: if you want to launch your own HN clone about food or anything else, you might also want to check out Telescope, an open-source HN/Reddit-style social news app: http://telesc.pe/ http://telesc.pe/
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Cool — I've been meaning to try Meteor for a while, will check it out.
- thangalin 13y ago
  Demo page is broken in Firefox.
- timthimmaiah 13y ago
  +1 telescope is incredibly easy to set up for an HN clone. Run in on a heroku cluster for free too. Thats what I'm doing with http://www.hackb.io/ http://www.hackb.io/. Check it out for a live demo.
boonez123 13y ago
Cycling News clone: http://news.2wheellove.com http://news.2wheellove.com
officialjunk 13y ago
fyi, the hyperlink to mezzanine in your github readme is missing the colon after "http"
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Thanks! Fixed.
filiwickers 13y ago
This looks great! How did you get so many people using it already? Was it just Hacker News crowd? I recently also built a HN Clone with Flask, this one for Open Data, Data Visualization, and other things along those lines. http://www.datanews.co/ http://www.datanews.co/ It was my first major Flask app and I mostly wanted to build it to learn. I definitely recommend this as a good learning application. Its complex enough you need to put in some thought but do-able at the same time. Source for DataNews is here: https://github.com/joehand/DataNews https://github.com/joehand/DataNews
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Grazie! I posted most of the initial links myself and showed the site to some friends before posting to HN. Very surprised it made it to HN homepage — maybe people are interested in Persona (I know I am)? Thanks for letting me know about datanews and sharing the source. I like Python and Django a lot and want to try something with Flask, too.

84 points by hypertexthero 13y ago

Good job, this is very cool! Maybe you want to use the triangle, that was featured on HN a few days ago :) -- http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh Is the source available for this anywhere? I would love to see some of it.

hypertexthero 13y ago
Thank you! Credit for the bulk of the work must go to Stephen McDonald who made Mezzanine and Drum, of course. Blog post with more info here: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2013/10/intro-food-news/ http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2013/10/intro-food-news/ The source is here: https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn I'll check out the CSS triangle.
- wikiburner 13y ago
  Very cool, thanks. I've been looking for something like this. I may fork it with a Disqus integration.
  - hypertexthero 13y ago
    Please do! I used Disqus (which I think is excellent) for another experiment I did (much worse than Stephen McDonald's work with Mezzanine/Drum!): https://github.com/hypertexthero/hir https://github.com/hypertexthero/hir - http://rome.hypertexthero.com/ http://rome.hypertexthero.com/ I often think about this, but at this time still prefer not using a third party for comments, especially on a site where the comments are so important.
    - wikiburner 13y ago
      Yep, I agree with you regarding third party comments for the most part, but I think by using Disqus there could be way less friction for account sign up in some circumstances. In my case, there's another site that I frequent that has a huge Disqus community, but it is desperately in need of social bookmarking functionality. I'm considering launching an independent site to provide it.
Diederich 13y ago
I'm super-excited about this site; I think it'll fill an important gap.
thirdknife 13y ago
Best part, find out healthy foods.
Zoomla 13y ago
the link that you provided is very broken in my Firefox (which doesn't mean it's broken for everybody of course)
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Can you please let me know the Firefox version & OS version?

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AndrewDucker 13y ago

Nice, smooth flow to it. It might be nice if rather than assigning you a random string as a username it used something like "Click here to set your user name".

hypertexthero 13y ago
Thanks! Agreed and it's on the [todo list](https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do) I also should have figured out what was wrong with memcache before publishing. Server seems to be taking a beating right now. If it goes down, my apologies — working on it.
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Done, I think :) https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn/commit/f4fb16c07fdf122792b15328264970bcad26134f https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn/commit/f4fb16c07fdf12279...

dcarmo 13y ago

That is so cool, I was dying for a site like this.

dcarmo 13y ago
I'd suggest for you to change the title of the page so it looks better on my bookmark bar. :)
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Agreed and done :)

gnur 13y ago

Looks nice, upvoting without logging in does have a small mistake though: "You must logged in."

hypertexthero 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I think the messages are inheriting from Mezzanine's messages app here https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/generic/views.py#L65 https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanin... - will fix it.
- hypertexthero 13y ago
  Fixed and @stephenmcd already merged the change, most excellent!

jlehman 13y ago

This is great. Thanks for putting this together!

sgdesign 13y ago

Quick plug: if you want to launch your own HN clone about food or anything else, you might also want to check out Telescope, an open-source HN/Reddit-style social news app: http://telesc.pe/ http://telesc.pe/

hypertexthero 13y ago
Cool — I've been meaning to try Meteor for a while, will check it out.
thangalin 13y ago
Demo page is broken in Firefox.
timthimmaiah 13y ago
+1 telescope is incredibly easy to set up for an HN clone. Run in on a heroku cluster for free too. Thats what I'm doing with http://www.hackb.io/ http://www.hackb.io/. Check it out for a live demo.

boonez123 13y ago

Cycling News clone: http://news.2wheellove.com http://news.2wheellove.com

officialjunk 13y ago

fyi, the hyperlink to mezzanine in your github readme is missing the colon after "http"

hypertexthero 13y ago
Thanks! Fixed.

filiwickers 13y ago

This looks great! How did you get so many people using it already? Was it just Hacker News crowd? I recently also built a HN Clone with Flask, this one for Open Data, Data Visualization, and other things along those lines. http://www.datanews.co/ http://www.datanews.co/ It was my first major Flask app and I mostly wanted to build it to learn. I definitely recommend this as a good learning application. Its complex enough you need to put in some thought but do-able at the same time. Source for DataNews is here: https://github.com/joehand/DataNews https://github.com/joehand/DataNews

hypertexthero 13y ago
Grazie! I posted most of the initial links myself and showed the site to some friends before posting to HN. Very surprised it made it to HN homepage — maybe people are interested in Persona (I know I am)? Thanks for letting me know about datanews and sharing the source. I like Python and Django a lot and want to try something with Flask, too.