War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

Post by sarchertech » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #9

danielvaughn wrote: post #8

This is really neat. Also, the 19th century was far more conflict-prone than I thought.

> Also, the 19th century was far more conflict-prone than I thought. Let me guess, you're American? For the US, once Northern America was settled, the US established and the conflicts with Natives and the Brits resolved, all you had was the Civil War... But here in Europe, up until 1945, it was constant warfare. And that not just the large wars between entire countries that some czars or emperors drew up, there were…

Post by vova_hn2 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

andrewmutz wrote: post #7

Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory. Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That animation loop is almost certainly leaking memory: each time-step it draws new border geometry (GeoJSON/vector shapes) but doesn't free the old frames, so RAM climbs without bound. When you interact — especially auto-playing the timeline — the…

Post by FerretFred » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

Post by hofrogs » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

andrewmutz wrote: post #7

Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory. Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That animation loop is almost certainly leaking memory: each time-step it draws new border geometry (GeoJSON/vector shapes) but doesn't free the old frames, so RAM climbs without bound. When you interact — especially auto-playing the timeline — the…

Post by rebolek » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC