Well, the thing about Telescope that might not be immediately obvious is that it's realtime. Sit and watch the front page for a while and you'll see posts re-ordering as other people vote on them. Hang about in the comments page for a post and you'll see new comments queue up as people make them.

Meteor makes it easy to build such features; sure you could maybe make them happen in other more traditional frameworks, but I can assure you, it would be a _lot_ more code. We wanted to make an easy to understand app in meteor as an example to help people learn their way around the frame work.

We'll be writing more about these features and how meteor made them possible; watch this space!