Custom Compression Crushes Gzip on Discord Messages—3.5x Wins, Bug Stories Included
Tired of bloated chat logs eating your storage? A tiny team just built domain-specific compression that shrinks Discord and Slack messages 3.5x—better than gzip—and owned up to the bugs along the way.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Glasik Notation delivers 3.5x lossless compression on real Discord/Slack data, 22-36% better than gzip.
- Caught a CRC bug pre-release via 1M-message validation—real engineering transparency.
- Open-source MIT code; potential game-changer for chat storage costs, with PNG-like domain-specific wins ahead.
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Originally reported by dev.to
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