alt Hacker NewsLAN parties aren't dead! Some of us are keeping the magic alive. I throw LAN parties at my house about twice a year. The hardest part, as i've gotten older, has been scheduling. Now I need to send save-the-dates 2 months in advance, and the length is capped at about 12 hours. When I was a teenager we would go all night :)
I am moderately obsessed with LAN parties, so I built a file sharing tool for LAN parties specifically, if you want to check it out https://justinbecker.dev/blog/2026/05/16/why-i-built-lanbuck...
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No modern LAN party discussion is complete without reference to kentonv's houses:
There’s still a few large ones. LANfest and quakecon are two that come to mind. Also LAN all night.
>I have on multiple occasions gone player to player, typing the IP into their address bar for them.
Sounds like you play with some serious noobs, friend.
Nice, I'm hosting a LAN party with friends next month, I might try this out. Thanks for sharing!
Are there any plans to open source it?