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I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but @chatto.run is so fast! Here I am scrolling down the list of files uploaded into the room, all the way back to March 1. Click an upload and you will instantly be transported to the message that added the file. This is not pre-fetched local state!

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski)

@cliffharris.eurosky.social

20 June

The EU should throw millions of dollars at you to build a non-US discord competitor. As a matter of strategic independence.

I'll allow it!

And everything in a single 70 MB executable with zero external dependencies that you can totally self-host easily on modest hardware.

Hehehehe

What are your secrets for fast image loading?

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

21 June

The images themselves in the video will already have mostly been cached by the browser (but the full virtualization of the message pane coupled with image lazy loading, highly optimized thumbnailing, and aggressive server-side caching do help significantly.)

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

21 June

The main magic trick that Chatto pulls off is that literally *every* data read op is performed either against a super-fast KV bucket or, for almost all data that is in the hot path, directly in the memory of the process that's handling your request.

Lukas

@german-noob.win

20 June

I'm so excited for chatto. I really hope it will replace discord as the default chat app. Will 100% self host an instance once it becomes available

Sevoris (he/him)

@sevoris.bsky.social

1 July

Hi I‘m seeing this now and weeping screaming over both Discord and Microsoft Team‘s crappy-arse scrolling behavior

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

1 July

We can do better! If you're ready to accept missing features and some current breakage because I'm in the middle of migrating everything to a fresh new API, you can self-host this today: docs.chatto.run/getting-star...

docs.chatto.runIntroductionWhat you should know before setting up Chatto.