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A Trillion Characters

Creator here,

For those interested:

- ZERO CLIENT-SIDE OR INLINE JAVASCRIPT except Datastar & Datastar attributes

- real-time multiplayer powered by CQRS

- 45x45 characters chunks stored in LMDB

- all characters are read & written through FULL ACID TRANSACTIONS. no shortcuts. no relaxations

- chunk-based viewport culling

- LZ4 compression on chunk-basis to remove white space and repeating chars

- runs on a 5,52 euro/mo VPS in Germany, cheapest tier in public cloud

Stack: Datastar, Python/FastAPI, LMDB

12 hours agoeliasdejong

I type somewhere, nothing appears

11 hours agoalienbaby

Wonder if that's to do with dark mode or something? I had the same issue in dark mode on mobile on duckduckgo.

11 hours agoandersmurphy

Oh LZ4 nice! Also the fact that this is in python makes this even more impressive.

12 hours agoandersmurphy

The idea of "Place but text only" seems too obvious in hindsight but somehow this os the first one I've seen. Works really well, kudos to the creator.

The next step would then be another clone of this but with a text representation of the world map as the starting point. Call it wfastserial or something

8 hours agoyapfrog

One can tell it's Datastar based on that ASCII rocket. Super smooth experience.

12 hours agotrizoza

standby, server is taking some load. should be back up soon

11 hours agoeliasdejong

What's the backend in ?

12 hours agobobowski

check info tab on the top

12 hours agoeliasdejong

Can Claude use it?

12 hours agoandersmurphy

You're absolutely right!

12 hours agosudodevnull

Blubberjabbing...

12 hours agotrizoza

Datastar btw