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Telescope: Open-source Hacker News clone built with Meteor

50 points by ashwin_kumar 12y ago

vannevar 12y ago
But it's not really a clone unless the pagination times out. ;-)
- chrismonsanto 12y ago
  It does have an implementation of "can't collapse comment threads", though.
petercooper 12y ago
Original discussion 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032 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 :-)
- sgdesign 12y ago
  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/ 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 http://crater.io, a community about Meteor itself.
  - ashwin_kumar 12y ago
    This is great. I really want to try Telescope for maintaining & tracking feature requests within our team.
waterfowl 12y ago
This application is partially cloned in the excellent Discover Meteor book(http://discovermeteor.com http://discovermeteor.com ... written by the same folks).
- sgdesign 12y ago
  Thanks! If anybody's interested, that clone (basically a much simpler version) is open-source too: demo: http://meteor-book-chapter14-2.meteor.com/ http://meteor-book-chapter14-2.meteor.com/ source: https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope
hamidr 12y ago
Just out of curiosity I think I've read somewhere that HN is written in Common Lisp. Or Am I just in pure delusion?
- Alphasite_ 12y ago
  Arc, which is a dialect of lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
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joeyspn 12y ago
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/ http://madewith.meteor.com/
coenhyde 12y ago
Interesting, but it the app is soo slow!
bfrog 12y ago
Soooo slow
SofiaBerlin 12y ago
Here is a combination of social news and cryptocurrencies I did with Telescope last autumn: http://bloqchan.com/ 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-wallet-d/fcakjkhpcakekaagfkafeafceiemomcm 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!
nacs 12y ago
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/ 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.
- sgdesign 12y ago
  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!

50 points by ashwin_kumar 12y ago

vannevar 12y ago

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

chrismonsanto 12y ago
It does have an implementation of "can't collapse comment threads", though.

petercooper 12y ago

Original discussion 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032 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 :-)

sgdesign 12y ago
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/ 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 http://crater.io, a community about Meteor itself.
- ashwin_kumar 12y ago
  This is great. I really want to try Telescope for maintaining & tracking feature requests within our team.

waterfowl 12y ago

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

sgdesign 12y ago
Thanks! If anybody's interested, that clone (basically a much simpler version) is open-source too: demo: http://meteor-book-chapter14-2.meteor.com/ http://meteor-book-chapter14-2.meteor.com/ source: https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope

hamidr 12y ago

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

Alphasite_ 12y ago
Arc, which is a dialect of lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

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joeyspn 12y ago

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/ http://madewith.meteor.com/

coenhyde 12y ago

Interesting, but it the app is soo slow!

bfrog 12y ago

Soooo slow

SofiaBerlin 12y ago

Here is a combination of social news and cryptocurrencies I did with Telescope last autumn: http://bloqchan.com/ 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-wallet-d/fcakjkhpcakekaagfkafeafceiemomcm 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!

nacs 12y ago

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/ 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.

sgdesign 12y ago
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!