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

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
• 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

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