A self-generating story that gets longer the more stars it gets

[kevlened]

https://github.com/lizadaly/there-are-stars

[humanistbot]

I can see the novelty in this, but it also seems like a very gimmicky way to get a bunch of stars in your repo.

[humanistbot → humanistbot]

And looking at the story [1], I see even less novelty. Seems like for each person who stars it, it generates a single madlibs-style sentence in the form of:

"In a [geographical feature] along the [path], a [profession] observed [number of existing stars] new stars in the sky and decided to follow the [adjective] path. They set out on a [adjective] morning."

[1] https://lizadaly.github.io/there-are-stars/

[bil7]

i had a glimmer in my eye and a sparkle of hope reading the readme; it fizzled out with no supernova upon reading the story.

[ShamelessC]

Ah yes, even more proof that no one clicks on anything that makes it to the front page.

[xigoi]

This is… starbait.

[jb1991 → xigoi]

This controversy is actually.. stargate.

[ggerganov]

Ha, this is similar to an idea that I had some time ago:

https://the-story.ggerganov.com

This is again a type of collaborative story-telling where you can vote for each word once per day. New words are added as more votes are accumulated. I thought it would be interesting to see it grow, but unfortunately - it has been just me and a friend submitting votes from time to time :D

Edit: punctuation is intentionally not supported

[daedlanth]

Why?