A Trillion Characters

sudodevnull

Datastar btw

trizoza

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

bobowski

What's the backend in ?

eliasdejong

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

eliasdejong

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

yapfrog

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