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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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Also in these discussions

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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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myfonj·Mar 1, 2024
Real fun begins when you realize that the streamed content can react to interactions that user submits from the streamed page: form targetted into hidden iframe or any other mean of issuing HTTP request back to the server and handling data it can react to in next streamed chunk. This way you can have for example "CSS only chat" [1], or basically anything, since the chunk with new data can contain style directives hiding the old data… [1] https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
In Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript

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