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Monocle.io Open Sourced
- sgdesign 13y agoAlways 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 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/ http://hn.premii.com/
- joellarsson 13y agoDo you know of any alternatives that has a browser-plugin similar to getpocket.com or sendtoinc.com?
- jeena 13y agoI 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-2586ffc58739 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.
- sgdesign 13y agoIt'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.
- woah 13y agohmmmm 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.
- mosselman 13y agoSomehow I don't find the typography satisfying. It is hard to read and explore the titles. HN does a better job at this even though your site looks prettier. The same goes for telesc.pe mentioned by sgdesign.
- sgdesign 13y agoCould that also be because you're so used to HN's design that it's easier to identify key elements?
- capex 13y agoHelvetica Neue at that font weight needs a larger size for legibility. See Parse using the same font in their docs at 16px[0]. [0] https://parse.com/docs/js_guide https://parse.com/docs/js_guide
- captn3m0 13y agoThis looks cool. Something that we can run internally as an alternative to our "Links Thread" on mail.
- ests 13y agoIt looks like a good example of how to structure and write clean apps in Sinatra.
- Jare 13y agoThe author discussed the project and a fair amount of internals in the JS Jabber podcast a couple months ago. Very recommended: http://javascriptjabber.com/077-jsj-monocle-with-alex-maccaw/ http://javascriptjabber.com/077-jsj-monocle-with-alex-maccaw...