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Just write a server; don't bastardize GitHub Pages.

Why do people bend over backwards to avoid using a server for anything? Its literally 11 lines of code:

https://go.dev/play/p/vUo6wKni3_A



GitHub pages is free forever, fast, and you don’t need to think about software updates or CPUs or anything. And it’s just a fun project.


>free forever

Like Geocities?


"Writing" a server is the easy bit. It's running it and letting people connect that is the problem. Also scaling to spikes in load etc.

This isn't just about github pages, it will work on most static hosting systems like Amazon S3 etc.




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