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css-only-chat
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kkuchta / css-only-chat

css-only-chat

A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend

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6.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-07 18:27:42 UTC to 2024-03-01 14:56:23 UTC.

012342019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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fishtoaster·Nov 1, 2023
The idea of using CSS-triggered requests for analytics was really cool to me when I first encountered it. One guy on twitter (no longer available) used it for mouse tracking: overlay an invisible grid of squares on the page, each with a unique background image triggered on hover. Each background image sends a specific request to the server, which interprets it! For fun one summer, I extended that idea to create a JS-free "css only async web chat": https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
In How Bear does analytics with CSS

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