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One of our goals with Telescope is helping more people learn Meteor, so it was important to keep things clear and simple. I'm glad you think we achieved that!",{"value":58,"source":52,"evidence":59},"Help more people learn Meteor",[60],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},[62,67,73],{"value":63,"source":52,"evidence":64},"Meteor",[65],{"id":66},"post",{"value":68,"source":52,"evidence":69},"MongoDB",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"4840651","I'll let Tom answer your first question, but regarding the backend database so far only Mongo is supported, although more database options are coming (see the Meteor roadmap…",{"value":74,"source":75,"evidence":76},"JavaScript","commenter",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"4840655","goldfeld","I've been working with Telescope's code for just over a week, and Meteor since the beginning of the year, and I wanted to vow for what a pleasure it has been. 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Exemplary work.",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},{"value":106,"source":75,"evidence":107},"Nice design and visual effects",[108,112],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"4840057","pm","I'm a fan of the telescopic mouseover effect, and the abundance of blue\u002Fpurple. I was expecting it be an aesthetic clone, but you guys have done a nice job.",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"4841360","dlsym","The demo-button-effect is awesome!",[117,128,136,143],{"value":118,"source":75,"evidence":119},"No test suite",[120,124],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"4840764","camwest","Sorry but is this meant to be marketing for Meteor or a legit project? Am I missing something or is there no test suite? This doesn't bode we'll if this is the example of how to…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4840902","tmeasday","It's a legit project. You are correct that there's no test suite, unfortunately support for testing is still a way down the priority list for the meteor devs:…",{"value":129,"source":75,"evidence":130},"Security concerns with Meteor's data model",[131,132],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"4840515","1qaz2wsx3edc","Yes, basically meteor is just an RPC. You make it secure. Out of the box it scaffolds for you, which isn't secure.",{"value":137,"source":75,"evidence":138},"Meteor not yet 1.0 and API changing",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"4840613","mrchess","I ~want~ to use Meteor on a large project, but they only are in Preview and in the FAQ states there will most likely be major API changes each [preview?] release, with no 1.0…",{"value":144,"source":75,"evidence":145},"Real-time updates of stories not useful",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"4840891","dreamdu5t","This is proof Meteor is not the future. 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