Request Details

original issue: https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/5445

Enable Zstd streaming compression as an option for websocket messages. Based on the Discord case study (and various other online studies), the results seem absolutely impressive.

Case study: discord.com/blog/how-discord-reduced-websocket-traffic-by-40-percent

ZSTD would help speeding up initial connection/subscription payloads.

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  1. website-features added the feature-request label Aug 7, 2026

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