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 :)

Learn More

Telescope Site
Telescope Demo
Telescope Meta – Discussions about Telescope

License

Telescope is distributed under the MIT License

Features

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

Installation

Install Meteor
Install Meteorite
Download or clone Telescope into /some/path
cd /some/path
Run mrt

Running Telescope on Heroku

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

Running Telescope on EC2

Check out Dirk Krause's installation script for EC2.

First Run

Set the root URL variable used for Twitter auth (on Heroku: heroku config:add ROOT_URL=http://your_url)
Fill in your Twitter keys
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

Local Variables

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'

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