Monocle.io Open Sourced

by hswolff • 13 years ago

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sgdesign3• 13 years ago

Always 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

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/

joellarsson• 13 years ago

Do you know of any alternatives that has a browser-plugin similar to getpocket.com or sendtoinc.com?

jeena• 13 years ago

I 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-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.

sgdesign3• 13 years ago

It'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.

mosselman• 13 years ago

Somehow 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.

sgdesign3• 13 years ago

Could that also be because you're so used to HN's design that it's easier to identify key elements?

capex• 13 years ago

Helvetica 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

captn3m0• 13 years ago

This looks cool. Something that we can run internally as an alternative to our "Links Thread" on mail.

ests• 13 years ago

It looks like a good example of how to structure and write clean apps in Sinatra.

Jare• 13 years ago

The 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...

Monocle.io Open Sourced

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