Live match chats

Per-match rooms · joining the next whistle

A chatroom per fixture. Open from the time the lineups drop, busy at kick-off, archived when the final whistle goes.

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How it'll work

  1. One room per match. Lineups posted, kick-off countdown, the whole thing tied to a fixture from the URC, EPCR, Six Nations or the Rugby Championship — pick the comp you care about.
  2. Threaded big moments. Tries, yellow cards, TMO reviews each get their own thread off the main feed so the timeline doesn't bury what mattered.
  3. Cool-down after the whistle. The room stays open for an hour for the post-mortem, then locks. Searchable archive.
  4. Reactions, not noise. Light reaction set (🏉 try, 🟨 card, 🤔 questionable, 🔥 quality), no GIF spam.

Mock-up

Stormers vs Leinster · QF · 18:00 GMT 12 in chat
kicker_42Lions doing the long warm-up again
youReckon Cardiff give it a go from inside their 22 today?
backrow_bruIf they want to stay in the comp, yeah
↳ TRY thread opened — Stormers, 23rd minute
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Status

Real-time chat needs Cloudflare Durable Objects to coordinate WebSocket connections — that's the next chunk of infra after the predictor stabilises. Sign in with Google to be tagged for the early-access list when it's open.