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swyx adds IRC-style chat to his blog using Cloudflare Durable Objects

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swyx says he added an old-school IRC chat channel to his blog and that Cloudflare Durable Objects let anyone add chat to any web interface for $0, with a good local development experience.

He argues this keeps the web open and social so readers do not have to read alone.

His post links to celld, an open-source, Apache 2 licensed, self-hosted implementation of Workers and Durable Objects by rough__sea. According to the post, celld needs only an S3-compatible bucket and uses about 4 MB per cell instance.

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AIswyx added an old-school IRC chat channel to his blog and says Cloudflare Durable Objects let anyone add chat to any interface for $0 with a good local dev experience. He argues the web can stay open and social, and that readers never have to read alone. The post links to rough__sea's celld, an open-source, Apache 2 licensed, self-hosted implementation of Workers and Durable Objects that needs only an S3-compatible bucket and uses about 4 MB per cell instance.

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