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Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers
- thinkxl 12y agoI 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/ http://www.telesc.pe/ using https://www.meteor.com/ https://www.meteor.com/. Is in early development so you will find some bugs. Any feedback is really appreciated.
- marcoms 12y agoLooks 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
- bigethan 12y agoNeat! 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?
- thinkxl 12y agoI just had to create a package with my CSS: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/custom-themes/ 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/ http://www.telesc.pe/docs/installing-telescope/ Used this to deploy: https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up 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.
- thespace123 12y agoThe Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!
- thinkxl 12y agoYes is a known issue that I need to fix, sorry about that and thank you :)
- jeffreyrogers 12y agoAre meteor sites typically slow? The only ones I've visited are.
- thinkxl 12y agoNot sure, I feel mine sometimes very slow, here is a list of Meteor/Telescope sites: - http://www.bootstrappers.io/ http://www.bootstrappers.io/ - http://dataforgood.co/ http://dataforgood.co/ - http://sidebar.io/ http://sidebar.io/ You can check if is only mine or all Meteor related.
- cnp 12y agoWhoa, good work! Bookmarked
- thinkxl 12y agoThanks! :)
- edwilde 12y agoCrashed ios safari :-/
- thinkxl 12y agolol, just by opening it?
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- kolev 12y agoWhy 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?
- kolev 12y agoWhy not use Lobsters (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters), instead, which is kinda active at https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ and has been around for a couple of years if not more?
- thinkxl 12y agoWhy 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product Thanks for your comment :)
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- cturhan 12y agoCongrats 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.
- thinkxl 12y agoThank you, I appreciate your comment :)
- nickhould 12y agoCongrats thinkxl!
- thinkxl 12y agoThanks :)
- boca 12y agoKeeps crashing chrome on my ipad air