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A Trillion Characters

36 points by andersmurphy 4mo ago

sometimelurker 4mo ago
I love this. its like wplace.live but better. thanks for making this
sudodevnull 4mo ago
Datastar btw
trizoza 4mo ago
One can tell it's Datastar based on that ASCII rocket. Super smooth experience.
bobowski 4mo ago
What's the backend in ?
- eliasdejong 4mo ago
  check info tab on the top
  - andersmurphy 4mo ago
    Can Claude use it?
    - sudodevnull 4mo ago
      You're absolutely right!
      - trizoza 4mo ago
        Blubberjabbing...
eliasdejong 4mo ago
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
- andersmurphy 4mo ago
  Oh LZ4 nice! Also the fact that this is in python makes this even more impressive.
- alienbaby 4mo ago
  I type somewhere, nothing appears
  - andersmurphy 4mo ago
    Wonder if that's to do with dark mode or something? I had the same issue in dark mode on mobile on duckduckgo.
- sometimelurker 4mo ago
  if you could make this selfhostable or have the database downloadable that would be really cool. thanks for making this, I really like things like this
eliasdejong 4mo ago
standby, server is taking some load. should be back up soon
yapfrog 4mo ago
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
smusamashah 4mo ago
Wow, this is awesome. And if anyone fancies, there are very few high quality places like this. See https://ourworldoftext.com/ https://ourworldoftext.com/ Non-text ones https://ourworldofpixels.com/ https://ourworldofpixels.com/ Both of these are deep rabit holes. Just click the tiny links in the central square or see chatbox. For example https://ourworldoftext.com/main https://ourworldoftext.com/main , https://img.ourworldoftext.com/ https://img.ourworldoftext.com/ , https://ourworldoftext.com/fp/carthage https://ourworldoftext.com/fp/carthage , https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/city https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/city , https://ourworldoftext.com/tileanimator https://ourworldoftext.com/tileanimator , https://ourworldoftext.com/Game_of_Ur https://ourworldoftext.com/Game_of_Ur , https://wiki.ourworldoftext.com/wiki/List_of_cities_on_OWOT https://wiki.ourworldoftext.com/wiki/List_of_cities_on_OWOT , https://ourworldofpixels.com/flags https://ourworldofpixels.com/flags , https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim , https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld Also found this just now https://wplace.live/ https://wplace.live/

36 points by andersmurphy 4mo ago

sometimelurker 4mo ago

I love this. its like wplace.live but better. thanks for making this

sudodevnull 4mo ago

Datastar btw

trizoza 4mo ago

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

bobowski 4mo ago

What's the backend in ?

eliasdejong 4mo ago
check info tab on the top
- andersmurphy 4mo ago
  Can Claude use it?
  - sudodevnull 4mo ago
    You're absolutely right!
    - trizoza 4mo ago
      Blubberjabbing...

eliasdejong 4mo ago

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

andersmurphy 4mo ago
Oh LZ4 nice! Also the fact that this is in python makes this even more impressive.
alienbaby 4mo ago
I type somewhere, nothing appears
- andersmurphy 4mo ago
  Wonder if that's to do with dark mode or something? I had the same issue in dark mode on mobile on duckduckgo.
sometimelurker 4mo ago
if you could make this selfhostable or have the database downloadable that would be really cool. thanks for making this, I really like things like this

eliasdejong 4mo ago

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

yapfrog 4mo ago

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

smusamashah 4mo ago

Wow, this is awesome. And if anyone fancies, there are very few high quality places like this. See https://ourworldoftext.com/ https://ourworldoftext.com/ Non-text ones https://ourworldofpixels.com/ https://ourworldofpixels.com/ Both of these are deep rabit holes. Just click the tiny links in the central square or see chatbox. For example https://ourworldoftext.com/main https://ourworldoftext.com/main , https://img.ourworldoftext.com/ https://img.ourworldoftext.com/ , https://ourworldoftext.com/fp/carthage https://ourworldoftext.com/fp/carthage , https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/city https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/city , https://ourworldoftext.com/tileanimator https://ourworldoftext.com/tileanimator , https://ourworldoftext.com/Game_of_Ur https://ourworldoftext.com/Game_of_Ur , https://wiki.ourworldoftext.com/wiki/List_of_cities_on_OWOT https://wiki.ourworldoftext.com/wiki/List_of_cities_on_OWOT , https://ourworldofpixels.com/flags https://ourworldofpixels.com/flags , https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim , https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld Also found this just now https://wplace.live/ https://wplace.live/