error handling shows you the error and offers the ability to reload;
disconnect handling shows you that the page will reload in a few seconds.
it uses exponential backoff with some random sprinkled into it to prevent overwhelming the server once people's clients decide to reconnect.
you could paste discord convos into it.
discord.
conversations.
and they'd render.
like in Discord.
lmao.
I still do wonder how to do syntax highlighting on it, but I've seen prism-code-editor, which I _think_ hides the textarea's text and overlays a non user-interactable syntax highlighted version on top.
what's cool is that we could theoretically have many such overlays - for things like highlights too
but we'll see how that goes