Telescope is an open-source, real-time social news site built with Meteor
Note: Telescope is beta software. Most of it should work but it's still a little unpolished and you'll probably find some bugs. Use at your own risk :)
- Telescope Site
- Telescope Demo
- Telescope Meta – Discussions about Telescope
- Telescope is distributed under the MIT License
- Real-time (of course!)
- Password-based and/or Twitter auth
- Notifications
- Mobile-ready & responsive
- Invite-only access for reading and/or posting
- Markdown support
- Day by day view
- Use the Heroku buildpack for Meteorite to push to Heroku:
heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git - Add MongoHQ addon
- Check out Dirk Krause's installation script for EC2.
- Set the root URL variable used for Twitter auth (on Heroku:
heroku config:add ROOT_URL=http://your_url) - Set the mail URL variable used for email notifications (for example, with Mailgun on Heroku:
heroku config:add MAIL_URL=smtp://postmaster%40YOUR_DOMAIN.mailgun.org:YOUR_PASSWORD@smtp.mailgun.org:587/) - Fill in your Twitter keys (by clicking on "Sign Up/Sign in" in your Telescope top bar)
- The first user account created will automatically be made admin
- Check out the settings page and fill out basic things like the site's name
Meteor uses local environment variables for a few things, such as configuring email. While this is straightforward to do on Heroku (see above), on a local dev environment the best way is to set up an alias for the mrt command.
For example, to configure Meteor to use Mailgun for email, in your .bash_profile file just add:
alias m='MAIL_URL=smtp://username:password@smtp.mailgun.org:587/ mrt'
This can also be useful for starting Meteor on a specific port:
alias m4='MAIL_URL=smtp://username:password@smtp.mailgun.org:587/ mrt --port 4000'