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[evbogue]

Yah, I guess you could use WebRTC or some other way of exchanging messages now that I think about it.

[krapp → evbogue]

You don't even need realtime. You can get away with just having people POST to a backend, updating a database and letting people refresh the page.

[evbogue → krapp]

Why do all that when you could have the server write simple text files to the disk?

[krapp → evbogue]

You need interaction for a chatroom, so you at least need a form somewhere.

[evbogue → krapp]

This is genius. But can we add an input field for the username?