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

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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.

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/

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.

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

This is… starbait.

This controversy is actually.. stargate.

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

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