when the party's ending

i got an email the other day from partykit about their hosted service shutting down since they joined cloudflare. this has been a very common type of email that i've been receiving lately as it seems like things are constantly being pivoted and abandoned at higher and higher speeds these days. my email is full of sunsetting notices from various things i've signed up for and tried out over the last few years that are now gone. nothing seems to last more than a couple years now. wibby also talks about the frustration in his recent post about deno. at least, for partykit, it's not an abandonment but just a bit of restructuring. if you've been following my page for a while, you'll know that the cursor chat on my homepage runs on partykit, now called partyserver. while they do provide instructions for migrating from the partykit hosted service to a cloudflare worker, i kind of considered just letting the cursor chat disappear from my page. it's always been a fancy extra thing that's a…