Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

[+] thinkxl|11 years ago|reply

I 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/ using https://www.meteor.com/.

Is in early development so you will find some bugs.

Any feedback is really appreciated.

[+] bigethan|11 years ago|reply

Neat! 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?

[+] marcoms|11 years ago|reply

Looks 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

[+] thespace123|11 years ago|reply

The Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!

[+] jeffreyrogers|11 years ago|reply

Are meteor sites typically slow? The only ones I've visited are.

[+] thinkxl|11 years ago|reply

Not sure, I feel mine sometimes very slow, here is a list of Meteor/Telescope sites:

- http://www.bootstrappers.io/ - http://dataforgood.co/ - http://sidebar.io/

You can check if is only mine or all Meteor related.

[+] kolev|11 years ago|reply

Why 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|11 years ago|reply

Why not use Lobsters (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters), instead, which is kinda active at https://lobste.rs/ and has been around for a couple of years if not more?

[+] thinkxl|11 years ago|reply

Why 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

Thanks for your comment :)

[+] sgdesign|11 years ago|reply

Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.

[+] cturhan|11 years ago|reply

Congrats 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.

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